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in favor of Amendment No. 11. A vote No
is a vote against. Delegate Key.
DELEGATE KEY: I am sorry to delay
the proceedings but I have a question.
THE PRESIDENT: State the question.
DELEGATE KEY: If line 16 says
"shall be eligible to vote", how can you
put further qualification in line 17 "if
registered".
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Cardin.
DELEGATE CARDIN: The present
Constitution and the present laws state
that there are certain eligibility require-
ments which one must have in order to
register to vote. What we have established
in section 2.01 is the eligibility. If the
eligibility is met then the voter must
register. After that step he is then quali-
fied to vote in any of the elections.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Key, the
Chair would point out to you in all of the
succeeding sections the phrase that is used
in referring to voters is qualified voters.
So that it means a person who is eligible
and who is registered.
DELEGATE KEY: I am wondering
further. That is all right.
THE PRESIDENT: Are you ready for
the question?
(Call for the question.)
The question arises on the adoption of
Amendment No. 11. A vote Aye is a vote in
favor of the amendment. A vote No is a
vote against. Cast your votes.
(Whereupon, the roll call vote was taken.)
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 101 votes in the affirmative
and 1 in the negative, the motion carries.
The amendment is adopted. Delegate Koss,
the Chair has been handed Amendment K.
Is there any desire to offer it?
DELEGATE KOSS: No.
THE PRESIDENT: If this were not the
very dignified Constitutional Convention of
Maryland, meeting for the first time in one
hundred years, the Chair would be disposed
at this point to say Glory Hallelujah, we
have concluded the second reading.
(Applause.)
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Now to some lighter tasks.
Consideration of Committee Recommenda-
tion GP-13. This is the schedule of transi-
tional provisions and the schedule of legis-
lation. It is going to be somewhat difficult
to present this to you in an orderly manner
because so many persons have participated
in the preparation and the compilation
really of the various sections of this draft
and because it touches upon the work of
every substantive committee.
As the Chair previously advised you, it
is desired to present to you a full explana-
tion so that hopefully there will not be any
difficulty encountered in debate and voting
on the various provisions. You should have
before you the blue copy, Committee Rec-
ommendation GP-13, and also it is impera-
tive that you have before you the Commit-
tee Memorandum GP-13 which is just about
as extensive. The Chair suggests that you
not have before you other recommendations
because I believe you will find in the Com-
mittee Recommendation sufficient informa-
tion to enable you to identify every other
section thus far adopted on second reading,
which is referred to in the blue recom-
mendation.
As you can readily understand, there
have been problems involved in preparing
Committee Recommendation GP-13 during
the past few weeks while this Convention
has been considering the various recom-
mendations. It has been virtually impos-
sible to keep abreast of the section num-
bering and any changes in the section
numbers.
The Chair would be greatly surprised if
there are not somewhere in the committee
recommendations erroneous section refer-
ences due to the fact that since the Com-
mittee Recommendation GP-13 was pre-
pared, we have altered some of the sections
referred to. Please, if you note these, call
them to the attention of everybody by tak-
ing the floor at the time. It will be helpful
if you do that.
In order to present the memorandum to
you in some kind of coherent style, the
Chair will request all of the clerks to leave
the clerk's desk so that the desks will be
available during the presentation and the
question and answer period for the sole use
of the committee chairmen and their staff.
Delegate Boyer, as Chairman of the Com-
mittee on General Provisions, will make the
presentation. He will be assisted by the
two staff members who have done most of
the detail work in the preparation of the
recommendation and the memorandum.
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