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within a federal enclave within the terri-
torial limits of Maryland answer your
question?
DELEGATE DELLA: Partly. I am
thinking about a military man being on a
ship.
THE CHAIRMAN : You are speaking of
a citizen of Maryland, a resident of Mary-
land, who is in the military service?
DELEGATE DELLA: A resident of
Maryland whose residence is on the In-
trepid.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Ross.
DELEGATE KOSS: The absentee vot-
ing rights, Delegate Della, of any resident
of the state of Maryland are protected
under section 6, which establishes a pro-
cedure for absentee voting. It gives to the
General Assembly the mandate for estab-
lishing the procedure for any registered
voter in the state of Maryland.
THE CHAIRMAN: Would your answer
not be that section 4 is not intended to
have any application whatsoever to absen-
tee voting by citizens of Maryland?
DELEGATE KOSS: Yes, sir.
THE CHAIRMAN: Would you say it
again. I do not think it was on the record.
DELEGATE KOSS: Yes, sir.
THE CHAIRMAN: Does that answer
your question, Delegate Della?
DELEGATE DELLA: Yes, sir.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any fur-
ther questions of the Committee Chair-
man?
Delegate Moser.
DELEGATE MOSER: Mr. Chairman, I
have a question for purposes of clarifica-
tion with respect to section 3, but I will
hold that until we are finished with sec-
tion 4, if this will be appropriate.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any fur-
ther questions of the Committee Chairman
with respect to section 4?
The Chair hears none.
Delegate Moser, you may state your
question with respect to section 3.
DELEGATE MOSER: Chairman Koss,
I call your attention to the second sentence
of section 3, lines 18 to 23, and ask wheth-
er this is intended to permit the General
Assembly to act on a case by case basis or
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whether it is supposed to require them to
act by general law?
DELEGATE KOSS: By general law.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Moser.
DELEGATE MOSER: Thank you.
THE CHAIRMAN: Very well.
Are the any further questions with re-
spect to section 4?
(There was no response.)
If not, we will consider Amendment No.
11, proposed by Delegate Storm. Is there a
second?
(The motion was duly -seconded.)
THE CHAIRMAN: The Clerk will read
Amendment No. 11.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 11
to Committee Recommendation S&E-2 by
Delegate Storm:
On page 2, section 4, Voters in United
States Enclaves line 30, strike out the
word "exercises" and insert in lieu thereof
the word "has".
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair recog-
nizes Delegate Storm to speak to the
amendment.
DELEGATE STORM: Mr. Chairman, I
would ask unanimous consent to change
this a little bit. I was trying to get by
with just as little change to the committee
proposal as possible, because we are both
aiming at the same thing but I would like
to have added to the word "has" the words
"been," b-e-e-n, "ceded," c-e-d-e-d.
THE CHAIRMAN: Is there any objec-
tion to modifying the amendment by add-
ing at the end in line 4 after the word
"has" and before the period, the words
"been ceded"?
The Chair hears no objection. The modifi-
cation will be made.
Delegate Storm.
DELEGATE STORM: Mr. Chairman
and fellow delegates, this is really not nit-
picking. I believe that it is important that
we use the words "has been ceded" rather
than "exercises." The reason is this. I
would like to refer you to just what we
are talking about as provided in the fed-
eral Constitution.
This is to enable people who are under
federal jurisdiction or on land which the
federal government has received by a
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