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governmental units, permissive legislation would be

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needed by the Legislature, not in the Constitution, per-

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haps.

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Resolving all city-county conflicts in favor

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of counties; I think I can answer that easily, yes, and

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my good friend Mr. Thompson might perhaps go the other

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way on it. I think here again we have to know what the

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conflicts are we are talking about. Certainly, there are

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many patterns of city-county areas of services where there

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are conflicts, but I think the more you provide the means

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of settling on a local level, the better off you are.

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You can never legislate cooperation, except by hitting

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somebody over the head, and I'm never really in favor of

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hitting people over the head unless I have to.

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Whether to give local subdivisions complete

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financial authority; personally, I don't think this should

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be. I think one of the things that we have been for-

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tunate about in Maryland is that our Constitution does

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not stipulate many financial provisions in it, other than

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the State budget provision, the State bond issues; but,

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as far as tax limits, taxation, we have not been hampered