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fees they collect. You would throw that in?
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MR. BENTON: Yes. I refer to Courts in the
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sense, perhaps, of all those agencies that service the .
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Courts or are housed in the Court House, although I do not
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necessarily limit such agencies to those presently in the
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Court House. They refer to those housed there at the
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present time.
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"In addition to the State requiring the City
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to pay the salaries o£ certain employees and other expenses
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as previously mentioned, the State legislature, over the
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years, has enacted an untold number of bills which have
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forced the City to spend millions of dollars for municipal
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operations completely devoid of any State-wide concern.
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"For example, frequently the State, acting upon
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the behest of special interest groups, has liberalized the
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provisions of the Policemen's Pension System which modi-
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fication, over the years, has actually cost the City
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millions of dollars." They have one of the best pension
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systems, 1 think, going.
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"I therefore propose that the Constitution provid
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that no State legislation requiring increased local
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