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when he votes on a question than one who
comes representing 10,000 people.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Della.
DELEGATE DELLA: That was a very
good dissertation on the Supreme Court,
but I am still sticking to section 2, eligi-
bility of voters in municipal elections. Are
you not forcing on those people in Ocean
City the kind of government you think
they should have?
DELEGATE WHITE: My answer is no.
If we take a strong and courageous posi-
tion here, it will enable the poor people in
Ocean City, whether they are poor or not,
to say we love you, but the Constitutional
Convention decided you cannot vote in
Ocean City any longer. You have to vote
where you live.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
The Chair recognizes Delegate Frederick,
but I would like to say we have on the
schedule fifteen minutes of controlled time
on both sides of this question and twenty
minutes of uncontrolled time and I think
the questions should be to the technical na-
ture of the section. I recognize Delegate
Frederick.
DELEGATE FREDERICK: Delegate
White, I will ask you a very brief ques-
tion. Did you have appear before you not
a mayor but a single taxpayer or single
resident of any of the towns that has ex-
tended the voting rights and oppose this?
Did you have one person that opposed this
particular section 4.02, that is, one who
has been covered by the extension?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate White.
DELEGATE WHITE: I do not recall
whether we had a single person who ap-
peared to speak against this. I do not
recall.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Smith.
DELEGATE A. SMITH: Delegate
White, I would like to be that one person.
DELEGATE WHITE: What are you
saying?
DELEGATE A. SMITH: That Delegate
Frederick referred to — one person who
does own property in Ocean City and does
have the right to vote. If you owned a
home in Ocean City and you started in
March with your family to go to Ocean
City to prepare for the company that you
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would have and the enjoyment you would
have all through the summer and up until
Thanksgiving, and I was down the week-
end of Thanksgiving to close up my home,
and you paid taxes and your water rent
and contributed in every way as every
other resident down there, would you not
think that you would have the rijrht to vote
for representatives?
DELEGATE WHITE: My answer is no.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
If there are no objections, we could move
on to the controlled time. Delegate Bur-
dette, do you have another question on the
technical aspect of the subject?
DELEGATE BURDETTE: On a tech-
nical aspect, indeed. I should like to ask
Delegate White about the language that he
is attempting here. I do not find it in the
minority report, but I think I have the
spirit of it. I wondered if Delegate White
and the members of the Committee who are
in the minority, have examined the ques-
tion that if sections 1 and 2 are read to-
gether — I may be mixed up on pages —
most of the municipalities which are small
in size in Maryland are required to have
nonresident voting by an arrangement. This
is the question that I gather you are speak-
ing of here in section 2 and I would like
this modified, namely, that the residence
requirements are the same as in the State.
But one discovers what they are by turn-
ing to section 1 and finds that the narrow-
est one is for the House of Delegates' dis-
trict. If one had a municipality of fifty
people, would not all people resident in the
House of Delegates' district have a right
under this language to vote in that mu-
nicipal election?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate White.
DELEGATE WHITE: Possibly the
Chairman of the Committee could expound
in the area you indicated, but the mi-
nority's chief concern is to knock out that
part of section 2 which would extend the
right to vote to nonresidents.
If any other section defines residence
for the purpose of those who do reside in
a unit, whatever it may be, we raise no
question on that. We are only concerned
with not permitting a non-resident, by
whatever determination is made, to vote
on the basis of property qualifications.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Koss.
DELEGATE KOSS: Mr. Chairman, I
would like to respond to Delegate Bur-
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