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thereof, Delegate Malkus, and Delegate Grant looked
into the issue pardon me, I think Delegate Mason
was also a member of the sub-committee. They discussed
it informally with representatives of the Attorney
General's office who advised them just the other day by
telephone that the proposed rule suffices from the legal
point of view.
We begin, of course, with the statutory
language, which is found in Chapter 5 of the Enabling
Act, I am sorry, the companion Enabling Act. It is set
forth on Page 1 of the explanatory comment and we read
this rule to give this Convention the power to adopt by
rule the standard which would control for deciding
that a delegate was present and entitled to receive his
$25 a day compensation, and the standards which would
control for determining whether a delegate was absent
and thus subject to the penalty of a $15 a day deduction
for unexcused absence.
The committee will concede that lawyers
and others could read the statutory language in a more
limited fashion. It is possible to argue with some |
