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I would urge this assembly to support the

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majority committee recommendation.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Any further discussion?

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Delegate James, did you want the floor?

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DELEGATE JAMES: I just wanted to say that I

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don't feel like testing to see whether the 13th amendment

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of the Federal Constitution will keep me from being incar-

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cerated for debt in the event I became unfortunate in later

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life.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Taylor.

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DELEGATE L. TAYLOR: Mr. Chairman, I just

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want to make this point: There are many men who are ordered

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to pay a court order, and becuase of their particular

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education and training cannot obtain employment, and

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many times they may have the skills, but cannot obtain

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employment. So many times they areordered to pay the court

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order and can't find the means to pay the court order.

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And of course, many men have been imprisoned because they

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have fallen behind on the court order. Now this, of

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course, is a circumstance beyond our control, and of course

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they are imprisoned because of a social handicap, and I feel