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units. There is an existing statute that says annexation -
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we are just constitutionalizing an existing statute from
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1919.
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DEAN FORDAM: If you put it in the constitu-
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tion that rigidifies it and ties the hand of the Legis-
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lature in achieving the flexibility I think desirable.
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MR. MELVIN: Aren't we only concerned at the
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time with whether or not we retain in the constitution
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Article 13, Section 1? As I read the report and then
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refer to Article 13, it seems to me to apply only to boun-
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daries .
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THE CHAIRMAN: Where actually it refers only
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to boundary lines, though, would it not also include the
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creation of any new units because you have to define
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boundary lines insofar as the new unit is concerned.
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Wouldn't it be inclusive? It is true, however, it retains
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what is already in our existing constitution. Whereas
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we had formerly recommended or submitted our report without
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including restrictions by way of referendum as Mrs. Freed-
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lander pointed out, the sense of the Commission was there
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should be the restrictions. Then we were directed to come
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