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JUDGE ADKINS: Dr. Bard.
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DR. BARD: Governor, your presence today gives
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us an unusual advantage in that you have been Governor
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of the State of Maryland on two occasions now and Mayor on
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two occasions, and so my question, in a sense, is directed
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to you in terms of these dual experiences which you have
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had. Article 11-A deals with Home Rule and local legis-
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lation. To your mind, might the provisions in respect to
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Charter Home Rule be extended in order to give a community
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like Baltimore City more Home Rule than it now secures?
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An illustration of that would be the requirement to be
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secured from the Legislature in order to float a loan, let
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us say.
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MAYOR McKELDIN: Yes. Of course, that's a
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terrible thing, of course, that Baltimore should subject
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itself to that, but yet we never get it. The members of
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the Baltimore delegation under Democrats and Republicans,
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they just won't give it to us. The counties have it, but
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we don't have it, ond we try every year to get it, and we
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are trying this time, and I don't know whether we are going
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to get it or not, but before we can float a loan, we have
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