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that there has been an act of cession. I will
try to find this.
I will tell you, in addition to answering
one of your questions, that in practically
every act of ceding land to the United
States, the State has reserved the power
to serve civil and criminal process on those
Army and Navy reservations.
For example, in the act which ceded
Fort Severn, now the Naval Academy, to
the Federal Government, Maryland's legis-
lature retained the power to serve civil
and criminal process within that federal
enclave.
This has been a common and I think
almost universal reservation of state pow-
er, so that the State in giving its consent
to the federal government buying and own-
ing and exercising jurisdiction over the
land has retained this concurrent power
as far as criminal and civil jurisdiction
goes.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Storm,
your time has expired. Will you please
bring the answer to a close as quickly as
possible?
DELEGATE STORM: If you have any
further question on it, I will be glad to
answer that in the hall.
THE CHAIRMAN: Does any delegate
desire to speak in opposition to Amend-
ment No. 11?
Delegate Rybczynski.
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: Mr. Chair-
man, the Committee was made aware of
the fact that there are people who have
lived in the State of Maryland for many
years but only by virtue of the fact that
they happen to live at a place like Perry
Point, which is government property, they
are not allowed to participate in our gov-
ernment. Despite the fact that they par-
ticipate in every other way, they are not
allowed to vote.
We have remedied that situation, I be-
lieve, by the language in our report.
We do not have to worry as to whether
it is ceded or not ceded. We did not care
if they exercised any jurisdiction. We
wanted the people to have the right to
vote and they will have it under this
amendment.
We hope that you will defeat the amend-
ment and support the report.
THE CHAIRMAN: Is there any fur-
ther discussion?
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Are you ready for the vote?
(Call for the question.)
THE CHAIRMAN: The Clerk will ring
the quorum bell.
The question arises on the adoption of
Amendment No. 11 to Committee Recom-
mendation S&E-2.
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of Amend-
ment No. 11. A vote No is a vote against.
Cast your vote.
Has every delegate voted? Does any
delegate desire to change his vote?
(There was no response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 19 votes in the affirmative
and 85 in the negative, the motion is lost.
The amendment is rejected.
Are there any further amendments to
section 4? The Chair hears none.
We will come down to section 5. Do you
desire to make further presentation, Dele-
gate Ross?
DELEGATE ROSS: I will be willing to
answer questions.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any ques-
tions of the Committee Chairman for pur-
poses of clarification with respect to sec-
tion 5?
The Chair hears none.
Are there any amendments to section 5?
Delegate Key.
DELEGATE KEY: I have an amend-
ment.
THE CHAIRMAN: What is the num-
ber?
DELEGATE KEY: AH.
THE CHAIRMAN: The pages will dis-
tribute amendment AH. This will be
Amendment No. 12.
The Clerk will read the amendment.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 12
to Committee Recommendation S&E-2 by
Delegates Key and Taylor: On page 2, sec-
tion 5, Disqualification, strike out the last
sentence beginning with the word "The"
on line 36 and extending through the
period on line 40.
THE CHAIRMAN: The amendment is
proposed by Delegate Key, and seconded
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