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DELEGATE GRANT: I would also like to get the

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Chair's assurance that it has not affected Section 4.37 of

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the Transitory Provisions which provides that the General

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Assembly shall prescribe by law a charter for the counties

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which have not adopted a charter by a certain date.

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THE PRESIDENT: No, because that charter will be

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a general charter applicable to any counties. It is not a

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law applicable to only one county.

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Are you ready for the question?

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Delegate Mentzer.

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DELEGATE MENTZER: Would the sentence read the

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same way if it said, "A public general law" shall be --

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THE PRESIDENT: Every effort was made to avoid

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it because it is fraught with so much difference. In

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Section 4.13 the Committee explained it was to apply to

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referenda on one class of laws only applicable to one county.

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Delegate White.

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DELEGATE WHITE: What should be page 8 is white --

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THE PRESIDENT: I am sorry, I did not follow you,

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DELEGATE WHITE: Is there supposed to be a page

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8 in the white copies?