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I would like to revert back to the third report,
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continuation, and on Page 2 of that report get the position
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of all with respect to the deleting of present language
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in the constitution contained in Article 13 with respect
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to a county being restricted to contain no less than 400
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square miles nor less than 10,000 white inhabitants, that
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that language be eliminated altogether from the constitu-
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tion.
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MR. MELVIN: I go along with the white, to start
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with.
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DR. LOEVY: Let the point out or.o thing, as
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Dr. Spencer points out in her book, the effect of this is
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to make it impossible literally to ever create a nev; county
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That is why I sought to remove it. If any of the rest of
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this is going to have any meaning at all, this has to come
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out.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Does anyone know why we put the
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restriction in there of "shall not contain less than 400
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square miles"?
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DR. LOEVY: She speculates it was purposely to
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insure that there would be no more counties created in the
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