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Now, a lot has been said about bond legislation
and since I have some familiarity with this subject, I
thought perhaps it might be helpful to the committee to
qive you in some capsule form exactly what we are talking
about.
When an attorney is asked to approve a bond issue,
what he is doing in effect is he is certifying that the
act which was introduced into the General Assembly and
became law really is the law.
This means in effect that the bill as it
passed through both houses met all ofthe Constitutional
prerequisites that the document recruires, so that vou can
sav, without any doubt at all, that that bill has rinened
into a law.
That is to say, you have got to check out each of
thr» steps as the bill passes through to make sure that
tose steps as required by the Constitution have been
complifd with.
In this regard, the job is very much like the
t3tle search that is done when vou buv a house. The
lawyer qoes to the record offices of the courthouse and |
