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DELEGATE GRANT: I am not sure I
received the answer. The removal applies
to both elective and appointive officers?
THE PRESIDENT: That is correct.
DELEGATE GRANT: Then it is meant
in the disjunctive and not in the conjunc-
tive.
DELEGATE MORGAN: In the disjunc-
tive.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Marion.
DELEGATE MARION: May I call your
attention to two other small typographical
errors, one on page 4, line 25, where the
word "determine" appears to have an "s"
on it that does not belong there.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Thank you.
That is quite correct.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there any objec-
tion to striking the "s" from the amend-
ment submitted by the Committee from the
word ''determine" on line 25, page 4? If
not the amendment will be considered so
modified.
DELEGATE MARION: On page 6, in
the first two lines we have allowed the
word "the" to appear twice, one right
after another.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Adkins.
DELEGATE ADKINS: Mr. President,
I am not entirely satisfied with the colloquy
relating to the change from "president of
the Senate" to "presiding officer." Would
it do great violence to the structure of the
Committee on Style's concept if we went
back to use the term "president of the
Senate"?
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Penniman.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: There would
be none whatsoever. I was simply calling
the attention of this Convention to the
fact that in the legislative branch sec-
tion, they referred to him as the presiding
officer. Here we are naming him as the
president of the Senate. I have no objec-
tion.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Adkins.
DELEGATE ADKINS: In the opinion
of the Committee on Style, would it be
preferable to say the "president of the
Senate," or would it be preferable to say
"the permanent presiding officer of the
Senate" to remove the possible problem
that Delegate Grant raised about having a
president pro tem who might at some time
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accede to the office of governor or lieu-
tenant governor?
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Either ous
might solve the problem. In the absence of
the Chairman of the Committee on Legis-
lative Branch, we could change it to "per-
manent presiding officer" until such time
as he were here to suggest a change.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Adkins.
DELEGATE ADKINS: Would the
Chairman of the Committee undertake to
add the word "permanent" where the words
"presiding officer" occurs without the neces-
sity of my preparing an amendment?
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Yes, sir, I
would be glad to do so.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Johnson.
DELEGATE JOHNSON: Just a ques-
tion to Chairman Penniman for clarifica-
tion. It is probably out of an overabundance
of caution, but so that the record be clear
with respect to section 4.18, Chairman
Penniman, would I be correct in assuming
that the deletion of the phrase "for at
least five years" on lines 4 and 5 and the
deletion of the word "shall" on line (5,
from the Committee on Style's original
recommendation, are being deleted because
they are unnecessary, is that not correct?
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: That is cor-
rect, Delegate Johnson.
DELEGATE JOHNSON: And it is the
Committee on Style's clear intent that it
was the Committee of the Whole's clear
intent that the attorney general in order
to qualify for election or appointment must
be a qualified voter in the State for at
least five years prior to his election or ap-
pointment and must have been authorized
to practice law in the State for at least
five years prior to his election or appoint-
ment.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: That is cor-
rect. It is as true tonight as last night.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Freed-
lander.
DELEGATE FREEDLANDER: Chair-
man Penniman, on page 9 and 10, since
the title of this article is "Executive
Branch," is it necessary to use "Structure
of the Executive Branch," "Reorganization
of the Executive Branch," or could it be
phrased a different way?
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Penniman.
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