THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 44 is referred to the Committee on
Personal Rights and the Preamble.
Delegate Proposal No. 45. The Clerk will
read the proposal.
READING CLERK: Delegate Proposal
No. 45, by Delegates Boileau and Murray.
Title,
A PROPOSAL that a general election
be held on the Tuesday following the first
Monday in November in the year 197I
and on the same day every four years
thereafter, and that the candidate receiv-
ing the highest number of votes for an
office shall be elected,
THE PRESIDENT: This is a proposal
that you should have on your desk, a sal-
mon-colored copy. The delegate proposing
this proposal has asked me to announce
that there is a typographical error in his
proposal in the second line after the last
word, the word "Monday". Would you
please add the words, "in November". The
proposal will be reduplicated and circulated
to you in correct form.
Delegate Proposal No. 45 is referred to
the Committee on Suffrage and Elections.
Delegate Proposal No. 46. The Clerk will
read the proposal.
READING CLERK: Delegate Proposal
No. 46, by Delegates Vecera and Murphy.
Title,
A PROPOSAL that vacancies in the Gen-
eral Assembly shall be filled by guberna-
torial appointment of the person nominated
by the state central committee of the vacat-
ing legislator's party,
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 46 is referred to the Committee on the
Legislative Branch.
Delegate Proposal No. 47. The Clerk will
read the proposal.
READING CLERK: Delegate Proposal
No. 47, by Delegates Vecera and Murphy.
Title,
A PROPOSAL that the General Assem-
bly may prescribe capital punishment.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 47 is referred to the Committee on the
Legislative Branch.
Delegate Proposal No. 48. The Clerk will
read the proposal.
READING CLERK: Delegate Proposal
No. 48, by Delegates Vecera and Murphy.
Title, |
A PROPOSAL that a maximum of two
senators shall represent each senatorial dis-
trict, and a maximum of eight delegates
shall represent each house district.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 48 is referred to the Committee on the
Legislative Branch.
I should have advised you that Delegate
Proposal No. 47 has been duplicated. You
should have a copy of it.
Delegate Proposal No. 49. The Clerk will
read the proposal.
READING CLERK: Delegate Proposal
No. 49, by Delegates Vecera and Murphy.
Title,
A PROPOSAL that local units of govern-
ment be prohibited from imposing a tax on
income.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 49 is referred to the Committee on
State Finance and Taxation.
Proposal No. 49 has been duplicated. You
should have a copy.
Delegate Proposal No. 50. The Clerk will
read the proposal.
READING CLERK: Delegate Proposal
No. 50, by Delegates Vecera and Murphy.
Title,
A PROPOSAL that the boundaries of the
councilmanic districts of Baltimore City
shall coincide with the boundaries of the
legislative districts of Baltimore City.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 50 is referred to the Committee on
Local Government. Delegate Proposal 50
has been reproduced. You should have a
copy.
Delegate Proposal No. 51. The Clerk will
read the proposal.
READING CLERK: Delegate Proposal
No. 51, by Delegate Chabot. Title,
A PROPOSAL that establishes voter
qualifications; election procedures; general
elections on the Tuesday following the first
Monday in November in every year; plurali-
ties to elect; pluralities to nominate in pri-
mary elections; voter qualifications in local
elections to be the same as in state elec-
tions, except that municipal corporations
whose population is less than one per cent
of the state population may establish a
minimum residence of up to one year; the
right of referendum; and sufficiency of a
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