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that going to have in Prince Georges County. I think

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there has been a movement and it is clearly evident as

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the years have gone by in the direction of acceptance of

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home rule, but you still have a very, very strong, well-

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organised group that just doesn't like the idea. Mr.

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Thompson?

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MR. THOMPSON: Mr. Chairman, I believe it is

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evident to anyone reading the Constitution and the Annotated

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Code of this State immediately that there are numerous

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special provisions made for the City of Baltimore. It is

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treated as an entity virtually unto itself and virtually

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the only kind in the State and it would appear to me it

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might be worthy of consideration and note when one is

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discussing the possibility of classification or categori-

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zation or however one may word that approach, of creating

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a system which would include Baltimore City as part of an

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over-all system, rather than regarding it as completely

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without and beyond, and I think this may have the advantage

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of integrating the governments and providing for more

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intergovernmental cooperation, if indeed every local

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governmental entity in the State is part of a State of