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begin his enterprise he would get n lottery grant from

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the Legislature to hold a lottery so he could get stock

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for his cigar store. It had just gotten out of hand.

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There was a great deal of skulduggery involved and it

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came into disrepute.

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As a result of that, the Legislature, of

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course, placed into the Constitution the prohibition

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which we have now. So that the word grant is in there

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for a purpose. It isn't just a word thrown in without

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any purpose or without any meaning. The Legislature

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could at that time have said there shall be no lotteries.

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There would be no need to put in grant unless they meant

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something by the word grant. The purpose was to prohibit

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a lottery grant, not a lottery. It is my contention and

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it is the contention of some others -- although it is

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contradicted by a great many others — that this

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provision in the Constitution only prohibits the

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Legislature from making a lottery grant but it does not

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state that there shall be no lotteries in the State of

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Maryland .

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I think this is important to keep in mind