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1	or --
2	DR. BURDETT: Also authorize classification,
3	rather than provide for it.
4	THE CHAIRMAN: It means we are going to be
5	changing the existing provisions in the Constitution for
6	something new.
7	DR. BURDETT: Not really, because the existing
8	Constitution provides for municipal classifications, but
9	the Legislature has decided that there is one classifica-
10	tion in Maryland.
11	MR. THOMPSON: Precisely.
12	DR. BURDETT: I've forgotten how many. Three
13	or four?
14	MR. RATCHFORD: Four.
15	THE CHAIRMAN: And also that you can classify
16	counties into four separate classifications.
17	MR. RATCHFORD: That would be under the Code.
18	May I comment on this for a minute, because it is a para-
19	doxical situation. I think Mr. Brooks would probably want
20	some study on this.
21	THE CHAIRMAN: And it would educate us, too.