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say we also recommend as part of our report, it needn't
be done by rule, that the Secretary of the Convention
have the power, provided he furnishes the Convention with
a copy of what he has done, to eliminate numerical, you
know, cross reference, numerical errors, grammatical
errors, that sort of thing; and I think rather than come
back to this Convention every time we found out that we
didn't dot an "i" or made an erroneous cross reference,
that this would be a sensible way to do it.
There was also a proposal originally suggested
by Delegate Case, who unfortunately is ill today, that
would have limited debate on third reading to new matters,
and Delegate Case's proposal had some merit. The
Committee considered it carefully, but we feel in view of
the liberality with which the previous question can be
moved in the Convention, not in the Committee of the
Whole, but in the Convention, there was no need to put any
further restrictions on what the content of debate on
third reading would be; so we rejected that proposal.
There was also some question of whether the Chair |
