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DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: Yea.
DELEGATE CLARK: Pagea please distribute
Aroendment Number E. This will be Amendment Number 19.
The Clerk will please read the amendment.
MR. QUILLEN: Amendment Number 19 to accompany
Minority Report Number R&P-1 to Committee Recommendation
R&P-1, by Delegates Burgess, Dabrowski, Hostetter, C.
Murray, Weidemeyer.
On page 4, Section 9 Limitations on State Action
in line 19 after the period add these words:
"No general or indefinitely continuing authori-
ty shall hereafter be granted which authorizes the taking
or damaging of private property by private persons, firms
or corporations for any public use or purpose. Any such
specific authority hereafter granted ahall be limited to
a specific purpose or purposes and shall be exercisable
during such period of time as may be reasonably
necessary to acquire the property by condemnation but
such period shall in no event extend for longer than three
years. In granting any such specific authority the ad-
vance taking of property shall not be preferred but may