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office.

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DELEGATE HARDWICKE: May I try a different

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approach? If we had a 100-day session or 80-day session

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or 60-day session, we per se limit the kind of people who

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can be interested. Only the lawyers, the insurance

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people and so forth, and these are good people, but let

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me throw something out that may be novel to you and that

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would be the idea that we would have the legislature meet

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every Friday and Saturday throughout the year, save only

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July, August and December, and you would have a continu-

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ous session. The number of days involved would still be

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60 or 90.

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You would make it possible for persons in

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every walk of life to serve without ruining their busi-

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ness or their profession, and 1 realize that from

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Allegheny County or Garrett County to Annapolis is a long

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way, but I think in terms of say major businesses and

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major corporations, and I know how simple it is to

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transport people from Cumberland by aircraft and other

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means of transportation. This is done in only 45 minutes,

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and I would earnestly suggest to you if you want to have