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a session of the Convention or a committee meeting or
a sub-committee meeting on a particular day, he is not
entitled to receive his $25 expenditure.
With respect to whether or not a person may
be excused and thus safe first from first the penalty
of the $15 deduction from his salary, the committee
has adopted what we believe is a fairly stringent rule.
We propose that a delegate shall be excused
by the President from attendance at sessions of
the Convention or meetings of any authorized committee
or sub-committee thereof, due to illness, death in the
immediate family, or other reasons beyond the control
of the delegate, and the excused absence shall be
entered upon the minutes.
This we hope will be a rather strict
standard to be applied by the President. It would be
very hard to not give him any discretion thereon.
On the other hand, we are sympathetic with the President's
view and I think the view of most of us that not a
great deal of discretion be vested in him in this manner.
I would say we all agree the practice we hope will |
