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commented upon is absolutely true. We are not authorized

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under the enabling-act to include in the schedule of

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legislation matters which we would like to see there, or whi

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we think ought to be there. We are limited to two categories

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of matters, matters in the present Constitution, which

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we have eliminated from the Constitution, and which must

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not, should or ought, but which must be continued because

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there is not time for the legislature to act; and, secondly,

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matters which require legislation before the legislature

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can act, because of the provision which we hadincluded in the

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Constitution, in the new Constitution.

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In thelight of those two premises, and in

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the light of Delegate Grant's statement that this provision,

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section 33(b) is not intended to grant to the municipalities

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any powers they do not have, and in the light of the

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provisions of section 7.05, which provides expressly for

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the continuance of existing powers of the municipality,

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the Chair suggests that the discussion has left it far from

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clear that this section meets either of the two requirements

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and does not, if it doesn't, does not merely reaffirm what

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is in section 7.05.