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1	MR. ASPER: I must ask this question, based
2	on your reference to Article 41. The Maryland Court of
3	Appeals has held repeatedly that Article Al does not
4	apply to monopolies, it only applies to monopolies
5	granted by the State, and it has been there since 1776,
6	and it reflects the old statute of monopolies in England
7	of 300 years before. Are you suggesting that perhaps
8	what we need in the Declaration of Rights is a stronger
9	provision or different kind of provision, providing a
10	statement against private monopolies?
11	MR. BURGESS: If you read the three books,
12	Osgood's .History of the Colonies, I think you will get
13	some of the reason why this grew out and came out in
14	1776, and I will admit it has been about twenty years
15	since I read those three volumes, but monopolies were
16	nothing new to the British people and certainly were
17	nothing new to the American people. As a matter of
18	fact, the colonies were even throttled through monopolies
19	that were set up in England. All of the trading com-
20	panies were monopolies chartered by the English govern-
21	ment and they controlled in the early days the lives of