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So, I think we are entering an era in which
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we probably ought to go a little more in the other
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direction, in putting a little more control in the
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hands of the legislature. This Article 8 gives this
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general power to the legislature. It has worked well
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since 1867. 1 would point out to you the fact that if
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you read Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of, I guess it was
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Article 8 of the Constitution of 1864, there are about
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four pages where they spell out the organization and
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direction of public education in the State of Maryland
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and then, along in 1867, they reduced all this to what
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you see in the body of this, which gives to the legis-
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lature this general control and, of course, it vzorks
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as a statute and it was in the law of 1916.
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On this point, I would say, on keeping the
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funds inviolate, I remember a county school superinten-
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dent I served under who was appointed by the board in
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1900, the same time Dr. Cook was appointed, and then I
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worked with Mr. Huntington and Mr. Hirsch in Baltimore
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County and they touched on this quite frequently, on
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keeping the funds inviolate; but the late Senator Arthur
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