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|541| and that it had begun its activity in this sense and had de facto taken over the negotiations entirely, to the exclusion of the assembly itself. On the remark of a member in the assembly on 28 April that the relations of the committee should be stated more determinately, Herr Amtsschreiber Bolley, one of the most active members of the committee, assured it that the committee would take no dangerous steps and would communicate with the assembly of the estates where it was necessary; in negotiations certain things had to be kept secret. On this assurance the assembly formally transferred to the committee the direction of the negotiations salva ratificatione of the assembly, as well as the instructing of the commissioners. – The proper activity of the assembly, the business in relation to the matter of the constitution, had hereby passed over to the committee. It is now mentioned that meetings of the commissioners of the estates with the royal ones have taken place; from 28 April, when a report on these proceedings, though not made known in print, and from 2 May, when a note of the committee to the commissioners, likewise not printed, is read, one learns nothing more of this business of negotiation until 29 May, when Herr Dr. Cotta (Section VI, p. 79), in the name of the commissioners of the estates, lays before the assembly a royal resolution, communicated to them on the same day, concerning six objects of the constitution. Only from the speech, remarkable in many respects, of Herr Gleich of Aalen of 23 June (Section VII, p. 81) does one learn something closer of the spirit and conduct of the committee. One sees from it, namely, that it had not engaged in any development of and work on the matter, but had straightaway set up six points, which, as Herr Gleich rightly remarks, were taken partly from the old Württemberg constitution, partly from the royal constitution, fragments of a constitution, as preliminary articles. – As the
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