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to is some of the counties are going to take advantage

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of this article which will be up for referendum in 1966,

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11F, I believe it is, Code Counties?

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MR. RATCHFORD: No, not so much the Code

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County, but more in line with -- there is a provision of

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the law, Article 25, which is the general County Commis-

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sioners law in the State of Maryland. One of the sections

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Section 3, has, I believe, twenty-five enumerated powers

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that a County Board can exercise. Many of the counties

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are exempted from this. They are beginning to take off

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some of these exemptions; that is one phase.

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I think it will be done not so much in refer-

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ence to the Code or home rule, but in what they can do by

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local legislation this year which perhaps, next time

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around, they will not have a senator and they would rather

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get it done now. As I said, this will be done through

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local law, but they will make some changes in perhaps the

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type of analysis Miss Spencer and Mr. Nash made in their

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studies, that I feel sure you would want to take into

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account in your own analysis.

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THE CHAIRMAN: I am sure we would, and that is