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On page 2, line 12, the word "elections"
should be singular, not plural; so the "s"
should be dropped from that "elections".
(At this point Second Vice-President
William James assumed the chair.)
DELEGATE JAMES (presiding): Is
there any objection to modifying the lan-
guage by dropping the letter "s"?
In the absence of objection it will be
considered so modified.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Otherwise,
the only change in section 4 is a slight re-
wording and a change in the order of the
sentences. We have no changes of any con-
sequence in 3.05 or 3.06.
I perhaps should have said at the begin-
ning throughout where the word "legisla-
ture" was mentioned we changed it to the
General Assembly to make it perfectly
clear.
In 3.07 there are minor changes which
were intended merely to reduce the length
of the section and to bring it in line with
the changes which we have made in the
executive branch and in the article on the
judiciary.
There are no changes again of any conse-
quence in 3.09, 3.10, 3.11. We made a
change of one word in 3.12.
On page 5, lines 10 to 13 had originally
been section 4.13 in the executive branch
and had been moved over to the legislative
branch, along with the other instances
where reference is made to the governor's
authority to convene special sessions.
On page 6, section 3.16, if you will, look
at the sentence that begins on line 6, "The
subject of every law shall be described in
its title," and put a line under that sen-
tence to indicate that it is italicized. In
other words, it is a sentence of the Com-
mittee, drawn, to be sure, from lines 10 and
11, but it is an insertion and therefore
should indicate a change from the way in
which it came to us from the floor. It is not
a change in content, but we should have in-
dicated that we made a change in the place
where it is listed. So if you will, underline
the words "The subject of every law shall
be described in its title." If you underline
that it will indicate the italics which we
forgot.
In line 13, add the words "the requisite
revenue." We inserted the words "the requi-
site revenue" because it is clear in article
6.15 that in a supplementary appropria-
tions act the legislature needs to indicate
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not only that it is subject to the appropria-
tions, but the fact of the availability of the
revenues. This is merely to keep it in line
with what we have already done in 6.15.
It is really a change of order, to get it
chronologically stated, rather than in some
other slightly different manner.
I am sorry, Mr. Chairman, but when I
asked that the words be italicized I forgot
to pause long enough for you to get ap-
proval, if they will give it to us, for that
change in section 3.16.
DELEGATE JAMES (presiding):
Chairman Penniman requests the right to
modify a sentence on page 6, "The subject
of every law shall be described in its title."
Unless there is objection, the language will
be considered to be so modified to permit
that italicized language.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: We will
turn now to 3.19.
We once more have the problem of mak-
ing some changes. In line 14, page 7, please
change the word "provide" to "prescribe";
page 7, line 14, the first word in the line.
In line 18—
DELEGATE JAMES (presiding): Un-
less there is objection, the word "provide"
on line 18 will be amended to read "pre-
scribe."
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: There are
four of those in that same paragraph. It
comes up on line 18, again on 23, and again
on 27, all in the same section.
DELEGATE JAMES (presiding): Un-
less there is objection, the paragraph will
be considered so modified.
Delegate Beatrice Miller, for what pur-
pose do you rise?
DELEGATE B. MILLER: On line 21
and 22, the phrase "at reasonable times" —
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Delegate
Miller, I was also about to make a correc-
tion on line 21 and 22.
We had crossed out the words "at rea-
sonable times," and we did not intend to
cross it out. We intended to move it to the
other side of "public," and by a typo-
graphical error we removed it and did not
put it back on the other side. This was the
subject of considerable discussion in which
both Delegates James and Della were in-
volved, and we changed it unintentionally.
We did not want to remove it. "At reason-
able times" should appear after "public"
and before the period.
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