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of cities and counties.

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I would like to have any comment that any mem-

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ber may want to make or any of the guests with respect to

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that restriction upon the grant of authority to the Legis-

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lature from the constitution.

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There being no comment, I am going to —

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MR. MILES: I missed you at one point about

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pollution, health, et cetera.

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THE CHAIRMAN: That the referendum will be

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provided for in the constitution itself where new political

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subdivisions are being created of a basic nature, but will

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not require referendum end ths creation of, let us say,

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Baltimore Port Authority or Pollution Control or any

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metropolitan combination of county and city. We will have

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that taken care of elsewhere actually by way of referendum

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but not insofar as the, unless it is a basic unit. If it

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becomes a basic unit, of course, it would be required to

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be submitted to referendum.

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MRS. FREEDLANDER: For the sake of action, I

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move that the constitution provide that any boundary

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changes among the units of the States that a referendum