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HONORARY PRESIDENT TAWES:
These gavels are made from African ma-
hogany wood, and the chairmen of these
committees will have a really fine mo-
mento of the service that they have given
to their committees.
Now, in the Committee of the Executive
Branch, which I had the pleasure of serv-
ing on, our Vice Chairman, a neighbor
from Wicomico County, was very effective.
He was a member of the study commission,
and while I did not agree with him on
everything that he was for, still we got
along beautifully, and we are going back
to the Eastern Shore, and we are still
going to be good friends.
Delegate Finch has prepared one of
these gavels for Dale Adkins to show the
great admiration Delegate Finch has for
Dale Adkins.
Dale, will you please come up?
(A gavel was presented to the Honorable
E. Dale Adkins, Vice-Chairman, Committee
on the Executive Branch.)
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Now, it gives me
great pleasure to present one of these
gavels to that other great Eastern Shore
Delegate, Delegate Tawes.
(A gavel was presented to the Honorable
J. Millard Tawes, Honorary President of
the Maryland Constitutional Convention.)
(Applause.)
HONORARY PRESIDENT TAWES:
I was wondering whether I was going to
get one. I did not know.
(Applause.)
We all want to thank Delegate Walter
Finch for his thoughtfulness in this cere-
mony of presenting these gavels to all of
us, and we want to thank Delegate E. J.
Clarke for the work that he has done in
making these presentations possible on this
occasion.
So now, Mr. President, we return the
rostrum to you.
(Applause.)
Well, I slipped up again. I am supposed
to keep the rostrum until the President
and the Secretary of this Convention affix
their signatures to the constitution on the
historic desk from the Old Senate Chamber.
(The Honorable H. Vernon Eney, Presi-
dent of the Maryland Constitutional Con-
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vention seated at the historic desk from
the Old Senate Chamber, certified the draft
constitution by affixing Jiis signature to it.)
(Applause.)
HONORARY PRESIDENT TAWES:
Secretary Martineau.
(Tlic Honorable Robert J. Martineau,
Secretary of the Maryland Constitutional
Convention seated at the historic desk from
the Old Senate Chamber, certified the
draft constitution by affixing Jiis signature
to it.)
(Applause.)
(At this point, President H. Vernon
Eney resumed the Chair.)
THE PRESIDENT: I hesitate very
much to see the photographers taking
photographs of all these signatures. My
hand shook so much it does not even look
like my name.
Honorary President Tawes.
(The Honorable J. Millard Tawes, Hon-
orary President of the Maryland Consti-
tutional Convention, seated at the historic
desk from the Old Senate Chamber, affixed
his signature to the draft constitution.)
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate William
S. James, Second Vice President, will you
please come forward and sign?
(The Honorable William S. James, Sec-
ond Vice-President of the Maryland Con-
stitutional Convention, seated at the his-
toric desk from the Old Senate Chamber,
affixed Jiis signature to the draft consti-
tution.)
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate James
Clark, because of the injury to his hand
several weeks ago, is unable to sign this
morning, in spite of the enormous practice
in trying to sign with his injured hand —
unless his attempt now succeeds.
DELEGATE J. CLARK: I am going to
sign later.
THE PRESIDENT: He will sign later.
(The Honorable James Clark, First Vice-
President of the Maryland Constitutional
Convention, will affix his signature to the
draft constitution at a later date.)
THE PRESIDENT: Before calling the
delegates in alphabetical order to sign, the
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