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Committee Chairman?

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Delegate Clagett.

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DELEGATE CLAGETT: Mr. Chairman, in the light

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of what you have told us up to this point, will you tell

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us, please, what that first sentence means?

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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: That first sentence means,

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when you read it in conjunction with old Article III,

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Section 33, about no special laws -- which we carried

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over into another section in LB-2 -- it means that you

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can't pass special laws creating corporations where general

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laws already exist for the creation of corporations as,

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for example, the State Tax Commission was created in 1910

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to do the chartering instead of the General Assembly

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itself, so where the General Assembly has set up

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a mode of incorporating, it must force those who

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incorporate to follow that particular procedure rather

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than to go to the General Assembly itself and have the

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General Assembly pass a charter.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gallagher, notwith-

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standing your admonition to the Committee on Style, would

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not the first clause be more readable and make more