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The Chair hears none.
The question arises on the approval on
second reading of Committee Recommenda-
tion JB-2 as amended.
Are you ready for the question?
(Call for tli e question.)
The Clerk will ring the quorum bell.
The question arises on the adoption on
second reading of Committee Recommenda-
tion JB-2 as amended.
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of the
Committee Recommendation; a vote No is
a vote against.
Cast your vote.
Has every delegate voted? Does any dele-
gate desire to change his vote?
(There was no response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 99 votes in the affirmative
and 1 in the negative, the motion is car-
ried and Committee Recommendation JB-2
as amended is adopted on second reading,
and is referred to the Committee on Style,
Drafting and Arrangement.
The next item on the agenda is a con-
sideration of the report of the Committee
on Style, Drafting and Arrangement, No.
S&D-13 with respect to Committee Recom-
mendations EB-1 and EB-2.
The Chair recognizes Delegate Penniman
and requests that the Chairman of the
Committee and the staff advisors take the
usual chairs.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: This is Style
and Drafting Report No. 13. It is the one
on the executive branch.
THE PRESIDENT: S&D-13 covers Com-
mittee Recommendations EB-1 and EB-2.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Mr. Presi-
dent, I am happy to note that on the pre-
ceding vote on the Committee on Style we
lost only one vote from our own Commit-
tee; otherwise, it went through unani-
mously.
Turning to the executive branch, again
you will note that there are relatively few
changes, and the changes in general are
changes in chronology, in the manner in
which we have done it for previous articles.
If we turn to 4.01, there are no changes
except to remove the "and he" and change
it to "who".
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We removed in 4.02 the words that we
have removed from previous articles "to be
eligible for" and started out with what
indeed are the facts of the case rather than
the preliminary.
In 4.03, page 2, line 5, I would like the
indulgence of the Convention to make the
"S" in the section a capital letter which we
inadvertently failed to do. That is line 5
of page 2.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there any objec-
tion to considering the recommendation of
the Committee modified to make the first
letter of the word "section" in line 5 on
page 2 a capital letter?
The Chair hears none, and the recom-
mendation will be considered as so modified.
Delegate Penniman.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: For those of
you who happen to have a report of the
Committee of the Whole, the old section
4.04 which dealt with salaries has now
been placed near the back in 4.23 after the
other discussions of each of the elective
offices.
Again, in the present 4.04 we have re-
moved the unnecessary words "to be eli-
gible," and so on. In line 16 we added the
word "thereafter" to indicate that it is only
after a person has been elected that he
shall not be eligible for the position of
Lieutenant Governor.
In 4.05 we have changed the wording
merely to get it in chronological order.
In 4.06 we dropped "following the elec-
tion but prior to taking office" because it
had seemed to the Committee that the
words "governor-elect" already made it
clear that he was not in office but that he
had been elected.
There are some minor changes in the
order of words in 4.07 where we are seek-
ing to make clear in a rather complex
article just where we are referring to the
governor and where we are referring to
the lieutenant governor. This has caused
us to make some shift in the order, and
occasionally to put in the words "the gov-
ernor" rather than to trust to the pronoun.
In section 4.08, line 20, beginning with
the "if" which has been crossed out, and
running down through line 23, "vacant",
was all crossed out inadvertently. Those
lines need to be returned. Otherwise, we
would be leaving it with the odd decision
of the Court of Appeals that a man cannot
perform the duty but that they have not
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