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the provisions of the Enabling Act make it reasonably

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clear, if not explicitly, that the various officers of

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this State shall cooperate with the Convention, and

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I would assume that the Secretary of State would

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cooperate to the extent of receiving those reports.

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They have no putative impact. If they are perjurous

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or inaccurate, what have you, in the end as in the

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beginning, the only club, the only inducement to a

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full and fair report would be publicity, identification

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and disclosure, reinforced, of course, by the intrepid

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representatives of this State.

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We have another section that prohibits

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contingent compensation, Section 7 and at this point I

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would like, well, I will come to it in a second. Under

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Section 7 we bar contingent compensation. However, as

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it reads now, and I will offer an amendment approved

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by the committee, suggested by Delegate Morgan, and

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approved by the committee; I will offer this amendment

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when we reach that point, and after the report has

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formally been moved for adoption.

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At the present time we prohibit compensation,