APPENDIX.

THE ACT CREATING THE COMMISSION.

GENERAL ACTS OF 1917, CHAPTER 28.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A COMMISSION TO COMPILE INFORMATION AND DATA FOR THE USE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. For the purpose of facilitating the work of the convention to revise, alter or amend the constitution of the commonwealth, as provided by chapter ninety-eight of the General Acts of the year nineteen hundred and sixteen, a commission of three learned and discreet persons shall be appointed by the governor, one of whom shall be designated as chairman, who shall forthwith proceed to compile and render accessible, in convenient form and arrangement, such information, data and material as may aid the convention in the discharge of its duties. The members of the commission may receive such compensation and may incur such expense for clerical assistance, incidentals and printing as the governor and council may approve, not to exceed in all the sum of ten thousand dollars. The governor is also empowered to fill any vacancy that may occur in said commission. The provisions of the laws relating to civil service shall not apply to clerks appointed by the commission.

SECTION 2. The commission shall place at the disposal of the members of said convention as soon as may be after their election the aforesaid information and data, from time to time, as the same is prepared and compiled and may, with the approval of the governor, distribute to such members before or after the organization of the convention as much thereof as the governor may authorize to be printed. The governor and council, upon such terms and conditions as they may deem expedient, may order that any material ordered printed for the use of said members shall be printed in sufficient quantity and distributed by the secretary of the commonwealth to the people at large.

SECTION 3. The commission shall be provided with suitable accommodations in the state house and shall, together with the members of the convention and the officers and employees thereof, have the same right of access to the state library as the members of the general court. There shall also be provided in the state house, subject to the approval of the

governor and council, a room or rooms conveniently near the place of meeting of the convention where the aforesaid information and data may be suitably arranged, indexed and catalogued.

SECTION 4. The service of said commission shall terminate upon the final adjournment of the convention, or whenever at any time prior to such adjournment, the governor may determine that the purposes and objects of said commission have been accomplished.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved February 28, 1917.