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(1)    if such person does not, in fact, receive compensation as a
delegate to the convention whether or not compensation be paid or
provided for as to some or all of the delegates to the convention;

(2)    if such person does not receive compensation but receives
reimbursement of actual expenses incurred in serving as a delegate
to the constitutional convention;

(3)    if such person does not receive compensation but receives
a per diem expense allowance for his service as a delegate to the
constitutional convention without being required to account for
the amount of such expense allowance?

(H) IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT THOSE VOTING
"FOR" THE CALLING OF A CONVENTION DID NOT CON-
STITUTE A MAJORITY OF THOSE VOTING IN THE ELEC-
TION, IS THE CALLING OF A CONVENTION AT THIS TIME
MANDATORY?

(I) CAN THE CALLING OF THE CONVENTION BE DE-
LAYED BY A PERIOD OF TWO YEARS?

Sec. 2. Anything in Article 32A or Article 33 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland to the contrary notwithstanding, The Board of
Supervisors of Elections of Anne Arundel County is hereby author-
ized to employ special counsel to represent it in any proceeding
instituted pursuant to Section 1 of this Act, such counsel to receive
compensation in such amount as may be approved by the Board of
Public Works.

Sec. 3. Upon petition of any person interested in or affected
by the determination of the questions presented to the court in
the declaratory judgment proceeding to be instituted pursuant to
Section 1 of this Act, the court may, in its absolute discretion,
permit such person to intervene in such proceeding as a party plain-
tiff or defendant upon such terms and conditions as may be imposed
by the court so as not to delay the proceeding. The Maryland State
Bar Association Inc. shall be considered an interested person within
the meaning of this section.

Sec. 4. Upon appeal by any party to said proceeding, or upon
petition by the Attorney General of Maryland without an appeal
by any party, the Court of Appeals of Maryland shall have jurisdic-
tion to review the judgment and determination of the Circuit Court
for Anne Arundel County rendered in the declaratory judgment
proceeding instituted pursuant to Section 1 of this Act and the
decision of the Court of Appeals of Maryland upon such review shall
have the same force and effect as any other final decision of the
Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Sec. 5. The court costs of said proceeding shall be paid by the
State of Maryland, with the approval of the Board of Public Works.

And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared to
be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate preserva-
tion of public health and safety and, having been passed by yea
and nay votes supported by three-fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved February 17, 1967.