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or given the power to reduce the Governor's budget as

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it applies to public education; more specifically,

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public schools. This point has been approved and will

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be recommended to the Commission at the appropriate

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time.

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What we are here involved with is a section,

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a subsection of Section 52 of Article 3, being sub-

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section 11, and this subsection provides in part as

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follows :

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"The estimates for the legislative depart-

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ment, certified by the presiding officer of each House,

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of the Judiciary, as provided by law, certified by the

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Comptroller, and for the public schools, as provided

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by law, shall be transmitted to the Governor, in such

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form and at such tines as he shall direct, and shall

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be included in the Budget without revision."

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Now, at our prior hearing of June 9, 1966,

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this particular part of subsection 11 of Section 52

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was looked at at great length and, subsequently, the

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Committee had before it Mr. Milson Raver who is the

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executive secretary of the Maryland State Teachers