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CO. COM'RS v. SUPERVISORS OF ELEC.

[No. 125, October Term, 1948.]

192 Md. 196 (1948)

63 A.2d 735

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY ET AL. v. SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Opinion filed January 21, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Barnard Welsh for the appellants.

Frederic P. Lee, with whom were C.E. Quinn and DeWitt S. Hyde on the brief, for the Supervisors of Elections.

Submitted on brief by James J. Hayden, R.E. Brown, A.H. Gardner and G.D. Morgan for Charter Board and Charter Committee.

The cause was argued before MARBURY, C.J., DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, and HENDERSON, JJ., and EMORY H. NILES, J., of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, specially assigned.

Decided per curiam December 16, 1948.

NILES, J., by special assignment, delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question presented in these proceedings is whether a County is entitled, under the "Home Rule Amendment" of the State Constitution, to adopt a Charter providing for a prompt special election of the first County Council, or whether it is required to defer such election until the next quadrennial general election for State and County officers, and...

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