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The Chair hears none. The modification
will be made.
Are there any other questions as to
Article 5?
The Chair hears none.
We will proceed to Article 6.
Just a moment, Delegate Penniman.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Delegate
Eney has asked me what other pages have
the blank beside 19, 21, 24, 26, 28.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: Mr. President,
through your representation, the Chairman
of the Committee, I rise to a point of per-
sonal privilege.
THE PRESIDENT: State the privilege.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: Mr. President,
on behalf of myself certainly because I can
give myself that authority, but also I be-
lieve on behalf of the other members of
this Convention, a number of whom have
spoken to me to act on their behalf and do
what I am now about to do and that is,
Mr. President, to thank you and Mrs. Eney
and the other officers of this Convention
who so graciously welcomed us at the re-
ception last evening. We all had a delight-
ful time and we are very, very sincerely
thankful to you. Thank you.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Are there any blank-
pages other than 19, 24, 28, 31, and 36?
We will try to have those pages re-
printed right away.
DELEGATE SMITH: 51.
THE PRESIDENT: Are there any
others?
Any other questions as to Article 5?
The Chair hears none.
Article 6.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Article 6.
We had the assistance of the staff advisor.
That is to say he worked with the staff
members of the Committee on Style, Draft-
ing and Arrangement.
We made a change in line 8, and put in
"only" simply because it sounded a little
better, to be imposed only for public pur-
poses and elected representatives. It
changes nothing in meaning.
In line 15 after checking with the sub-
stantive committee, we changed it from the
"time of the adoption" of this constitution
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to the "effective date" of this constitution,
which would correspond with the way it is
in I think all other instances in the con-
stitution.
There were no changes in 6.03, none in
6.04; none in 6.05; in 6.06, we removed
some of the "such's" by putting it in line
50, "the manner" and on line 1, page 39,
"the terms and conditions". We changed
the "as" to "that the General Assembly
may prescribe by law".
There were no changes in 6.07, none in
6.08, none in 6.09, none in 6.10, none in
6.11, none in 6.12.
In section 6.13 we did make a change to
make clear that when the Committee said
and we approved six days before the ex-
piration, "ten days before the expiration
of its regular session", it meant "by the
eightieth day" of the regular session. With
the addition of these two possibly thirty-
day extensions, it was deemed desirable to
make clear that it was the "eightieth day"
which would have been the way to have
stated it if we had not had these two little
extras added on.
This was, of course, cleared with the
Committee.
Section 6.14, no change.
Section 6.15, in the last line, it is not the
end of the sentence. Please remove that
period after the word "shall" in line 53.
THE PRESIDENT: On what page?
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Forty-one,
the last line, "appropriation bill shall",
and then it keeps on going.
THE PRESIDENT: Strike the period at
the end of line 53 on page 41. It is an ob-
vious typographical error.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Section 6.16,
no change. We put "Lottery" in this sec-
tion not because it does anything for state
finances, but it is to make clear that this
is one of the ways in which you cannot
raise state finances, so it is put in this
section.
That completes that section.
THE PRESIDENT: Are there any ques-
tions as to Article 6?
Delegate Henderson.
DELEGATE HENDERSON: Do you
need a main heading "lottery" when you
have the subheading there? It seems to me
it is a duplication.
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