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DELEGATE BOYCE: I voted no on
Amendment No. 14 and Aye on Amendment
No. 15, sir, -and I think .the Clerk regis-
tered on the machine or on the paper.
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair's an-
nouncement was wrong. The vote on
Amendment No. 14 would be 99 to 24, and
on Amendment No. 15, 122 to two.
Are you ready for the question on
Amendment No. 16?
(Call for the question.)
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of Amend-
ment No. 16. A vote No is a vote against.
Cast your vote.
Have all delegates voted?
Does any delegate desire to change his
vote?
(There was no response.)
Mr. Boyce has voted Aye.
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 129 votes in the affirmative
and 10 in the negative, the motion carries.
The amendment is adopted.
Delegate Gallagher, I believe your amend-
ment passed earlier this morning is now
available, AG, to section 3.16. Do you de-
sire to offer that at this time?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chair-
man, I do.
THE CHAIRMAN: The pages will dis-
tribute Amendment AH.
For what purpose does Delegate Boileau
rise?
DELEGATE BOILEAU: A point of per-
sonal privilege, Mr. Chairman.
THE CHAIRMAN: State the privilege.
DELEGATE BOILEAU: There are
three residents of the Fifth District of
Baltimore County, a district which I grew
up with and I am sure the delegates from
that district will not mind if I introduce
them since they are closely related to me,
my parents and my younger brother,
Michael. I hope you will welcome them to
the Convention with me.
(Applause.)
THE CHAIRMAN: Delighted to have
them.
Delegate Maurer.
DELEGATE MAURER: I rise to a
point of personal privilege.
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THE CHAIRMAN: State the privilege.
DELEGATE MAURER: I wish to recog-
nize in the balcony some citizens of Mont-
gomery County, in the balcony above the
rostrum. Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Osburn,
long known for their civic activity in the
Silver Spring and Montgomery County
area and I would like to also call attention
to the presence of my husband and my
fifteen-year old con in the rear gallery.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delighted to have
all of you.
(Applause.)
THE CHAIRMAN: Amendment AH.
This will be Amendment No. 17.
Will the Clerk please read the amend-
ment?
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 17
to Committee Recommendation LB-2, by
Delegate Gallagher: On page 4 section 3.16,
Consideration of Bills, in line 33 strike
out the words "shall be prepared in final
form" and insert in lieu thereof the fol-
lowing words "and all amendments shall
be in writing."
THE CHAIRMAN: The amendment is
offered by Delegate Gallagher. Is there a
second?
(Whereupon, the motion was duly sec-
onded.)
THE CHAIRMAN: The amendment hav-
ing been seconded, Delegate Gallagher, do
you desire to speak to it?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chair-
man, ladies and gentlemen of the Commit-
tee: Unfortunately I did not have an op-
portunity to call the Committee on the
Legislative Branch to a meeting to discuss
this, and it was prepared this morning
following a meeting with the President and
with the President of the Senate, Delegate
James.
The Committee on the Legislative Branch
will remember that we spent some time with
this section in Committee trying to get
away from the use of language which would
indicate that the bill on final passage would
have to be in a single complete printed or
mimeographed form, because we wanted to
allow the second house to be able to amend
a bill after it had come over from the
originating house, and to attach the amend-
ments.
It was felt this morning in the con-
ference that there was still some danger
of this interpretation, although we had
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