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recognized as given some constitutional status.
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This recommendation was not accepted by the
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Committee.
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I also wish to point out that we are advised
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by legal counsel that Section 3, of Article VIII, as now
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provided for public education may not bs used, once they
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have been appropriated, for the purposes of private or
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parochial education in Maryland. On the basis of this ad-
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vice, we are extremely concerned that the Corrmittee on
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Miscellaneous Provisions has recommended that this section
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be dropped, apparently on the basis of the specious argu-
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ment that there is no longer a State School Fund, per se,
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in the State of Maryland.
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At the Seminar, held in Towson last Tuesday,
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other recommendations and suggestions that have consider-
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able import for public education in Maryland were also
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discussed :
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1. That more power be centralized in the
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governor of Maryland. I understand that the entire Con-
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stitutional Convention Commission has unanimously adopted
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the recommendation that the offices of Attorney-General
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