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1	quite see. I am growing to understand what your theory
2	is because I come from Prince Georges County and have been
3	a part of this reaction to the very word or notion of
4	charter throwing out a very good form of government which
5	has done an exceptionally good job in taking care of a
6	county running from very early colonial days up to and
7	inclusive of the present where we are something like the
8	second most rapidly expanding county populationwise in the
9	entire United States. We have had constantly all kinds
10	of problems such as taking care of adequate schooling,
11	roads, pollution of the Potomac River which happens to be
12	on our boundaries, sewerage, water, all kinds of problems
13	which there has been an extraordinary exhibition of flexi-
14	bility on the part of that group of and that form of
15	government to keep with and keep with adequately.
16	So that; you see, directly reflects a very high
17	credit rating insofar as the county is concerned, et cetera
18	I don't still quite understand how we, through' the con-
19	stitution can give a broad grant of power without having
20	some structure to which that power'
21	MR. MELVIN: What you are saying is, you don't