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THE CHAIRMAN: Pages are distributing the
Amendment U. Please mark it 13. The Clerk will read
the ainendment.
MR. QUILLEN: Amendment Number 13 to Committee
Recommendation LB-2 by Delegate Gallagher.
; On page I Section 3.02 Legislative Districts
in line 18 strike out the word "Natural" and insert in
lieu thereof the words "Due regard shall be given to
natural"; and in line 19 place a period after the word
"subdivisions" and strike out all of line 20.
THE CHAIRMAN: The amendment is offered by
Delegate Gallagher. Is there a second?
(The amendment was seconded.)
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair recognizes Delegate
Gallagher to speak to the amendment.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chairman, and ladies
and gentlemen of the House, you will remember that the
reason I advanced to you as to why the committee on the
legislative branch departed from the Constitutional
Commission's recommendation that the districts should be
as equal as practicable was that we were afraid that there