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DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Yes, that is
easy enough.
THE PRESIDENT: Do you desire to
make the change?
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Yes, please.
THE PRESIDENT: Line 15, page 67,
after the word "tie" insert the word
"vote". Is there any objection?
The Chair hears none.
Delegate Cardin.
DELEGATE CARDIN: Chairman Pen-
niman, on page 65, line 38, we used the
term "registered voters". Is there any
reason why this was not changed to "quali-
fied"?
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Penniman.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: There cer-
tainly was. We did not look this over care-
fully enough. It should be "qualified
voters".
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Cardin.
DELEGATE CARDIN: Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there any objec-
tion to changing "registered" to "quali-
fied"?
The Chair hears none. The modification
will be made.
Is there anything further?
Delegate Grant.
DELEGATE GRANT: On page 67, line
44, there are now twenty-four instead of
twenty-three counties.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well, Dele-
gate Penniman, you agree to the change?
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: I agree.
THE PRESIDENT: Line 44, page 67,
"twenty-three" should be changed to
"twenty-four". Any objections?
Delegate Hardwicke.
DELEGATE HARDWICKE: May I
just suggest that you strike the number
altogether?
THE PRESIDENT: All right. A sug-
gestion is made that in line 44, page 67,
strike the number "twenty-three". Is there
any objection?
There is none; the modification is made.
Delegate Grant.
DELEGATE GRANT: On line 20 on
page 66, it says "county or counties, in-
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cluding Baltimore City" which, I think,
would be unnecessary now.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Penniman.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: That is cor-
rect.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Grant.
DELEGATE GRANT: It is in paren-
theses. I suggest it be stricken.
THE PRESIDENT: Just a second.
Delegate Grant, Mr. Miller, staff ad-
visor to the Committee, suggests to the
Chair that it is improper to make these
changes because the definition of county,
including Baltimore City, is in the Consti-
tution and it says in this Constitution that
shall be the case. That is not carried over
to Article 1 of the Code where the defini-
tions are so that they have consistently
followed the practice in the schedule of
legislation of referring to Baltimore City
separately. It occurs to the Chair that
that is proper until the definition is in-
corporated in Article 1 of the Code.
Delegate Grant.
DELEGATE GRANT: In that case, we
are going to have lots of trouble because
we are consistently referring to counties —
THE PRESIDENT: That is true in the
Constitution.
Delegate Grant.
DELEGATE GRANT: The same situa-
tion occurs on page 76. There it is spe-
cifically spelled out that Baltimore City is
included.
That would seem to reinforce the point
made by Delegate Miller.
In that case, I might suggest that we
might have to go through the whole thing
and say "counties, including Baltimore
City" unless we put a general saving
clause at the beginning of it. We have
used "counties" innumerable times through
the schedule and included Baltimore City
without saying "counties, including Balti-
more City".
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Hard-
wicke.
DELEGATE HARDWICKE: We had
the same problem with the phrase "prior
Constitution". On page 69, line 52, we
used that phrase and it is not defined in
the Schedule of Legislation. It is defined
in the transitional provisions. If this
raises a problem, I would have given a
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