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With your memory, I am sure you will recall on

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Pearl Harbor Day I tried to get the Convention or the

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Committee of the Whole to change the word "exercises" in

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line 30 to "has been ceded". I didn't make it very clear

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that the result of this would be to extend and liberalize the

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provision.

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Now, I don't know whether in the discussion of GP-5

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I made it clear that the United States has a lot of juris-

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diction that it doesn't exercise, and that it doesn't

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exercise jurisdiction over most of these federal enclaves.

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Do you think it now is clear enough that I could

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suggest this amendment again?

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THE PRESIDENT: I think you did make the point very

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clearly in the discussion, and since this is second reading

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and is the last opportunity to present the matter, let me

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direct the attention of the committee chairman to this,

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please.

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Delegate Koss, when this section 2.04 was under

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consideration in the Committee of the Whole, Delegate Storm

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prepared a memorandum and also indicated orally that there

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are many areas as to which exclusive jurisdiction has been