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ask you to refrain just a moment or so more.
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Mr. Melvin, you had a question a moment ago.
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MR. MELVIN: I want to congratulate Dr. Loevy
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first of all. I agree with everything he said, but I do
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have this question. That is, as I read this alternative
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provision, if adopted, it Would in effect reverse our
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position as to mandatory home rule because of the fact
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that the express powers would apply only to those counties
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vho adopt a char.ter.
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I am wondering why we have to limit it to that,
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following along Dr. Burdette's feeling or at least .what
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I think his feeling is. That is, that regardless of what
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structure they have, we want then to have these powers
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and leave it up to the counties to determine what par-
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ticular structure they have for exercising these powers.
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It would seem to me that perhaps this thing
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could read that the State Legislature shall provide by
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public general law a grant of express powers for the
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counties of Maryland. Then down at the bottom, that from
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and after the adoption of the constitution, no public local
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law shall be enacted and so on.
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