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1	with it, how would you feel about that? In other
2	words, what I am thinking of it if you took the prohibi-
3	tion out entirely, could Baltimore City, for example,
4	put in a lottery or Baltimore County or Carroll County?
5	Would you advocate any control over it all?
6	MR. PRESSMAN: I think the control ought to
7	be legislative. I think for me to say otherwise would
8	be inconsistent with the main thrust of my argument.
9	I don't think there is any provision about the lottery
10	that belongs in the Constitution. I think this is the
11	jurisdiction of the Legislature and should be with the
12	Legislature and nowhere else. As I mentioned at the
13	outset, I feel and Mr. Barnes, now Judge Barnes, did
14	state in his brief that he felt that the present provi-
15	sion doesn't prohibit a locality from having a lottery.
16	It doesn't prohibit the state from having a lottery. It
17	merely prohibits a lottery grant. Of course, that is
18	debatable and there are many people who feel to the
19	contrary. They feel this provision says you just can't
20	have any lotteries .
21	But my main argument here is that no provision