are to consider a bill that has passed the
Senate, and been amended there, the type
is in bold print. If it is amended in the
House, we must have forty copies of that
amendment given to the members of the
Senate so we can pass on that amendment
as offered to the second house.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are you ready for
the question?
Delegate Case.
DELEGATE CASE: Mr. Chairman, so
that the record can be absolutely straight on
this subject, could it show that the words,
"in writing," are intended to embrace the
procedure which has been described here
by Delegates Gallagher and Della and
Gleason and James, or some variation of
that procedure, but in any event do not
mean handwritten script as a "in writing
amendment," which would be permissive.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Case, the
Chair thinks two things are embraced in
your comment. I think everyone recognizes
that the procedure outlined by Delegate
James and Delegate Della is largely a mat-
ter of the rules of the several houses, and
I did not understand from the Chairman
of this Committee that it was intended by
these words to require that a copy of the
written amendment be on everybody's desk.
That would still be left to rule.
The second part of your question I think
is correct, namely, that it is intended by
the use of the words, in writing, to mean
something other than handwritten script;
whether it be by typewriter, by letter press
or offset, or multigraph or anything of the
sort, and I take it from the discussion that
the Committee on Style would be free to
come up with some alternate expression if
it could use one to carry out that meaning.
Has the Chair correctly stated the posi-
tion of the Committee, Delegate Gallagher?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Yes, sir,
that is the position.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are you ready for
the question?
(Call for the question.)
The question arises on the adoption of
Amendment No. 17 to Committee Recom-
mendation LB-2.
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of Amend-
ment No. 17. A vote No is a vote against.
Cast your votes.
Delegate Boyce votes Aye.
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Has every delegate voted?
Does any delegate desire to change his
vote?
(There was no response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 119 votes in the affirmative,
none in the negative, the motion carries.
The amendment is adopted.
The Chair should have announced ear-
lier this morning that because of other
matters which must be handled, it would
be the intent to recess for lunch at about
12:30 P.M. today instead of 1; in other
words, from 12:30 P.M. until 2:00 P.M.
Before moving on to the next matter,
Delegates E. J. Clarke and Maurer, on be-
half of all the delegates from Montgomery
County, desire to make an announcement,
and since it is on behalf of all of them,
they have asked me to have the reading
clerk read the announcement. I hand it to
him now.
READING CLERK: Announcement by
Delegates E. J. Clarke and Maurer in behalf
of the delegates from Montgomery County.
Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen of the
Convention: It is with deep regret that we
announce the death yesterday of the Hon-
orable Jack Marshall Stark. Jack Stark at
the time of his death was Chairman of the
Montgomery County Board of Appeals, in
which position he served the people of
Montgomery County with great distinction.
He was for a short time a candidate for
delegate to the Constitutional Convention
of Maryland, but he withdrew in favor of
the bipartisan slate. Those of us who knew
him wish to express our deepest sympathy
to his wife, Betty Bee, his parents and the
rest of his family.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chair-
man, before proceeding with the other mi-
nority report, I wonder if you might take
up an amendment marked N.
THE CHAIRMAN: Yes. There is also
an amendment marked F. Do you desire to
offer that at the same time, or following it,
or before it, either one?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Yes. I will
not offer F, because N is a little more
complete and has in it the suggestion made
by Delegate Clagett yesterday.
THE CHAIRMAN : Very well, the pages
will please distribute Amendment N. This
will be Amendment No. 18.
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