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<br />106 <br /> <br />CI-L\:ffiMAN HOOVER, No chongos. Tho witnoss clauDe en the cnrl readD:' <br /> <br /> <br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, tho rospectivo commissionors hayo signed this <br /> <br /> <br />compact :in a s:ingle orig:inal, which shall be dopositod in tho <br /> <br /> <br />archivos of tho Dopartment of Stato of tho Unitod Statos,of <br /> <br /> <br />lmorica of which a duly cortifiod copy shall bo fo~'~rdod to .tho <br /> <br /> <br />Govornor of oach ef tho signatery statos." <br /> <br /> <br />JUDGE SLOlN: Certifiod by whom? Tho Department. ef Stato? <br /> <br /> <br />1!R. DJERSON: Is tho Governor of the State tho propor custodian of <br /> <br /> <br />records D.Ild sheuld he therefere receive the copies On behalf ef tho State? <br /> <br /> <br />MR. C.\RPENTER: Ur. Emersen, in my proposed draft I requested our <br /> <br /> <br />Executive Socretary to make inquiry ef the state Department, preper departments, <br /> <br /> <br />both aD to the keeper of the archives, D.Ild second as to the lan~lage Tn1ieh <br /> <br /> <br />should be used in this particular paragraph, not being fully :infermed <br /> <br /> <br />myself, presum:ing that the state Deportment was, I. nevertheless left the <br /> <br /> <br />vlerds "Department of state" out. Upon investigation he advised me that he <br /> <br /> <br />was :informed that the Department of State vms the official keeper ef the <br /> <br /> <br />archives of the United States ef lmerica, as our secretaries of state are <br /> <br /> <br />keepers of the archives :in our respective states, and that it had been <br /> <br /> <br />suggested the words "Department of State" be :inserted. <br /> <br /> <br />!.lR. EMillSON: That is in the case of the United States. It just <br /> <br /> <br />occurred to mo if the proper official or proper office should not bo the <br /> <br /> <br />Secretary of State of each individual state. <br /> <br /> <br />I,m.. C,\RPENTER: In that event youweuld have to mo.ko nine cepies and <br /> <br /> <br />sign them all, er you could designato some one state, but in view of the <br /> <br /> <br />fact that the United states has a representative on this Compact Commission <br /> <br /> <br />participating it was thought prudent and proper to deposit the document <br />itself :in the archives of the United States. <br />1m.. Et:IERSON: Well, that is no deubt proper, lilr. Carpenter. l.Iy only <br />question was, :in send:ingyour certified copies to the states, if, in sending <br />