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material that the President sent us during the interval
since our last meeting, you announced that there was some
doubt under the rules as to whether or not the President
had the authority to appoint officers of the Convention
as opposed to employees, the officers being the Secretary
and the Chief Clerk and the Parliamentarian and such other
officers as the Convention may decide to have. I gather
that the President has appointed as Acting Secretary
Mr. Martineau, and also has appointed other officers, and
I wondered whether it was the Chair's pleasure that the
Convention should deal with these matters today and offer
an appropriate filing or confirming resolution.
THE PRESIDENT: I thought Delegate Scanlan,
that the resolution had been prepared for you to offer.
It obviously has not. I would therefore merely announce
at this time the action which I have taken and have a
resolution in appropriate language in writing presented
to the Convention at another session.
I have already announced to you in a memorandum
that there was some apparent confusion in the amendment
of one of the rules adopted at the session on July 11; so |
