remedy for all wrongs or injuries which
he may suffer to his person, property,
character, and family, such right to be
free and without purchase, complete and
without denial, prompt and without delay,
by having recourse to the laws and equita-
ble principles.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 416 is referred to the Committee on
Personal Rights and the Preamble.
Delegate Proposal No. 417. The Clerk
will read the proposal.
READING CLERK: Delegate Proposal
No. 417, by Delegate Finch. Title,
A PROPOSAL that the highest court of
the State shall have appellate jurisdiction
in all cases under the Constitution of the
State and the Constitution of the United
States, and in all other cases as provided
by law; that said court shall be composed
of seven justices, five justices constituting
a quorum; and that the concurrence of five
judges in the instance of a constitutional
issue, and four justices in all other in-
stances, shall be necessary for the decision
of a case.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 417 is referred to the Committee on
the Judicial Branch.
Delegate Proposal No. 418. The Clerk
will read the proposal.
READING CLERK: Delegate Proposal
No. 418, by Delegate Singer. Title,
A PROPOSAL that no law of the Gen-
eral Assembly shall require expenditures
by any county until approved by the govern-
ing body of the county, unless the General
Assembly provides sufficient funds to meet
the cost of such county expenditures, pro-
vided that exception hereto may be made
by law uniformly applicable to all counties.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 418 is referred to the Committee on
Local Government.
Delegate Proposal No. 419. The Clerk
will read the proposal.
READING CLERK: Delegate Proposal
No. 419, by Delegate Finch. Title,
A PROPOSAL that the citizens of the
State shall continue to enjoy and freely
exercise all riparian rights of creeks,
river, lakes, bays, and the ocean to which
they have heretofore been entitled, includ-
ing the rights of huntery and fishery. |
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 419 is referred to the Committee on
Personal Rights and the Preamble.
Delegate Proposal No. 420. The Clerk
will read the proposal.
READING CLERK: Delegate Proposal
No. 420, by Delegate Finch. Title,
A PROPOSAL that the General Assem-
bly shall have the power to enact suitable
legislation to train and retrain persons
displaced by automation.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 420 is referred to the Committee on
the Legislative Branch.
1 call to the attention of the Convention
that of the 91 days allotted by the Enabling
Act for the session of this Convention to-
day is the 45th. We therefore are at the
halfway point. In the period since Septem-
ber 12, when this Convention assembled,
the committees of this Convention have
held nearly 250 hearings and they have
heard nearly 600 witnesses. Most of the
committees, as I am sure all of you are
aware, are now nearing the end of the
discussion stage and beginning very active
drafting of recommendations and reports.
It is imperative that this work proceed
with all possible dispatch and again 1 want
to urge all delegates who may be con-
templating submission of minority reports
to be working on them now. Please do not
wait for the completion of majority reports
before you begin to think in terms of the
minority report you may offer.
The Chair recognizes Delegate Malkus.
DELEGATE MALKUS: Mr. Chairman,
I rise upon a point of inquiry. Will the
Chair yield to a question?
THE PRESIDENT: I do not think the
Chair has to yield to a question, Delegate
Malkus. State your inquiry.
DELEGATE MALKUS: 1 noted with in-
terest that you have just stated that we
have reached the halfway point, 45 out of
91. The reason that I rise is that after 45
days we still have not complied with the
law, Section 12 of Chapter 4 of the 1967
Act which states the Convention shall
appoint an historian whose duties it shall
be to collect, compile, document, preserve
all proceedings of the Convention and its
several committees.
My question, sir, is directed to you and
it is this. First, are we going to have a
historian which the law requires, and sec- |
