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staff, left the State House at five-thirty this morning.

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Under this kind of pressure and not withstanding the

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tremendous efforts which have been made to insure the

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accuracy of the copy which has been placed before you,

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it is utterly impossible to give the absolute assurance

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which we all want. that there has not been some typographic

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error or some slight change overlooked or something

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included that should not be. Even as this Convention sits

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to take its final votes, members of the professional

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staff are again repeating the process of checking, double

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checking, really auadruple checking, because we are

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trying to check against four different sources to make

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sure that we have picked up, the staff, has picked up

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all of the action of the Convention.

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In addition, we have several groups of lawyers

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entirely independent of the Convention to whom I sent

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copies last evening of the complete text who are reading

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through it for a different kind of error and that is not

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a typographical error or a failure to pick up amendments,

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but the kind of error to creep in when an amendment is

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made in one section and has an effect on the other, and