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50 MARYLAND MANUAL
whelmingly rejected by the voters at the election held on
May 14, 1968, the vote being 367,101 against and 284,033
for ratification.
Although the document was defeated in its entirety, some
of the provisions of the proposed constitution have since
been enacted by the Legislature. One was the reorganization
of the executive branch of government, which consolidated
numerous departments, commissions, bureaus and other
State agencies into twelve new major departments, each
headed by a cabinet-level Secretary. Another proposal
adopted was the establishment of the district court system,
replacing the melange of magistrates' courts, people's courts,
and other courts of limited jurisdiction that had previously
existed. Also of note has been the extension of the regular
sessions of the General Assembly from seventy to ninety
days and the creation of the office of Lieutenant Governor.
On the political scene, Maryland was suddenly thrust into
national prominence when Governor Spiro T. Agnew was
selected by the Republican Party in August 1968 to be the
running mate of presidential nominee Richard M. Nixon
and subsequently elected. Governor Agnew resigned his
office on January 7, 1969 and promptly thereafter the Gen-
eral Assembly elected Marvin Mandel, the Speaker of the
House of Delegates, to succeed him.
At the election of November 3, 1970, Governor Mandel
was continued in office by the voters. At the same time,
Blair Lee III was elected to the newly-created office of
Lieutenant Governor. He thus became the first person to
have this title since Christopher C. Cox served as an un-
popular Lieutenant Governor while the short-lived Consti-
tution of 1864 was in effect.
Blacks in Maryland
On April 4, 1972, the Maryland House of Delegates
adopted a Resolution No. 156, "urging that the next MARY-
LAND MANUAL include in its historical sketch of the State
appropriate references to the broad range of Marylanders
who have contributed to the history and development of the
State," and specifically noted the lack of reference to the
history of Blacks in the history of Maryland. In accord with
the spirit of Resolution No. 156, the Commission on Negro
History and Culture was asked to prepare a summary of the
Black contribution to Maryland history of which the follow-
ing is an excerpt:
Maryland is the birthplace or the adopted home of a dis-
tinguished group of nationally recognized Black citizens in-
cluding the eighteenth century astronomer Benjamin Ban-

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