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Assembly were killed. We would anticipate that the

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General Assembly would) prior to such a disaster, indicate

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that in the event that a quorum were not alive or could

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not be called there would be some other method of operating

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the General Assembly.

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We would anticipate that if all the constitutional

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officers were wiped out so that the orderly filling of

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vacancies could not take place in a disaster that the

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General Assembly would pass legislation prior to such

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an emergency saying in such event the governor shall be

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selected under these circumstances or the governor shall

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be the man who holds dffice in this particular area.

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The same thing for the operation of government --

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if you can't get a General Assembly together and you can't

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appropriate funds because of a disaster, government would

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be stalemated, and we would contemplate therefore that

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the General Assembly would pass laws which, despite

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constitutional provisions, would in an emergency allow

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the disbursement of state monies, even though it could not

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otherwise be constitutionally accomplished.

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We debated the inclusion of this at some