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That is Mr. Vernon Miller and Mr. William
Adkins. Mr. Boyer is also requesting that
Delegate John Hardwicke come to the desk
because Delegate John Hardwicke has
acted as a sort of subcommittee liaison be-
tween the staff members and Delegate
Boyer's Committee and the various commit-
tee chairmen.
Notwithstanding these rather elaborate
preparations, it will be necessary from
time to time to refer questions not to any
of the people whom I have named but to the
chairmen of the committees. I think it will
be desirable to proceed through the ex-
planation, not section by section, but ar-
ticle by article, because the sections are
arranged in this way and in this manner
the questions that will be directed to the
chairman of a substantive committee will
be directed to one such chairman at a time.
This is a matter to be considered by the
Committee of the Whole. The Chair, there-
fore, recognizes Delegate Powers so we may
resolve ourselves into the Committee of the
Whole.
DELEGATE POWERS: Mr. President,
I move the Convention resolve itself into
the Committee of the Whole so it may
consider general orders of the day.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there a second?
(The motion was duly seconded.)
THE PRESIDENT: All those in favor,
signify by saying Aye; contrary, No. The
Ayes have it. It is so ordered.
(Whereupon, at 10:OS A.M., the Conven-
tion resolved itself into the Committee of
the Whole.)
(The mace was removed by the Sergeant-
at-Arms.)
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE
JANUARY 3, 1968—10:08 P.M.
PRESIDENT H. VERNON ENEY,
PRESIDING
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Boyer. Mr.
Miller. Mr. Adkins. Delegate Hardwicke.
Delegate Boyer.
DELEGATE BOYER: Mr. Chairman,
ladies and gentlemen of the Committee of
the Whole, it appears that we are coming
clown the home stretch on what hopefully
will be the last committee recommendation,
GP-13.
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With your indulgence, I would like to
enjoy the luxury of approximately five
minutes to tell you how we got here and
to give you a brief rundown on what has
led up to this particular moment on Gen-
eral Provisions 13.
As you recall, in the original set-up, in
the early days of this Convention, the
transitory provisions and schedule of leg-
islation had originally been assigned tenta-
tively to the General Provisions Committee.
At the genesis of things, this seemed pos-
sible and probable and accurate to do so.
However, as time developed and pushed on,
it appeared that nothing could be done in
the area of transitory provisions or the
schedule of legislation until all the other
substantive committees had completed their
work so that at that stage someone, per-
haps the General Provisions Committee,
could look over the entire spectrum of what
we had done thus far and implement it by
transitory provisions and schedules.
As time went on, it became more evident
that it would be physically and chronolog-
ically impossible to do this in the General
Provisions Committee as a substantive
committee. For this fifteen-member com-
mittee or any other fifteen members of this
Convention to do a just job to the very
important matters before us at this stage,
would have required hearing from all the
witnesses that the other seven substantive
committees probably had heard from in
order for us to get a grasp of the problem
so that we could write the recommendation
before you. Time did not permit the lux-
ury of the duplication of witnesses even if
they had been available and were willing
to come down once more to testify.
So at this time we thought that perhaps
having an ad hoc committee of all com-
mittee chairmen who had heard these im-
portant matters from their own viewpoint,
that would form this ad hoc committee to
write this legislation. This is what was
done.
The committee chairmen met, pooled their
resources together, and with the aid of the
legal staff of each of the committees,
plunged into the pool of transitory provi-
sions and schedule of legislation. What you
have before you is the result of this work.
The chief of the legal staff who handled
this was the staff member of the General
Provisions Committee, Mr. Vernon Miller,
assisted by the staff member of the Ju-
dicial Branch, who seemed to cause more
of the problem than the transitory provi-
sions, Mr. William Adkins. These two gen-
tlemen and Delegate Hardwicke formed the
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