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to legislative districts, that natural boundaries and
the boundaries of political subdivisions shall be fol-
lowed insofar as practicable.
When you drafted the Congressional redistrict-
incr language, you modified that to read, reading in line
8 and 9, "due regard should be given to natural boundaries
and the boundaries of political subdivisions."
Now, let me ask you, do you mean something less,
some less attention with regard to Congressional districts,
or the same attention?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER; May I point out to Delegate
Hardwicke that last evening we amended Section 3.02 to
have it read, as is proposed in Amendment Number 23, which
was, "due regard shall be given to natural boundaries and
the boundaries of political subdivisions", so that the
proposal in Amendment 23 is identical to what we adopted
last night in 3.02 as amended, so those two are now the
same.
The reason for not using the word "practicable"
and going to "due reward" was that we wanted the primary