Chap. 759.                            747
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of the law to the contrary, Grant M. Palmer, Jr., incumbent of the office of reporter of decisions of the supreme judicial court, may continue to serve in said office, subject to the pleasure of the justices of the supreme judicial court, until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventy-three. His participation and that of his wife in the state group insurance program may be continued unchanged. Upon retirement at the termination of his service his retirement rights shall be determined as though he had retired on August thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventy.
Section 2. This act shall take effect as of August eighth, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.
Approved September 11, 1973.
Chap. 759.      An Act relative to the method of engrossment
BY THE LEGISLATIVE ENGROSSING DIVISION OF CERTAIN BILLS AND TO THE PRINTING AND PUBLICATION OF SUCH BILLS UPON THEIR BECOMING LAW.
Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is, to expedite the engrossment procedure pertaining to matters before the General Court, therefore, it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 23 of chapter 3 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following two paragraphs: —
If the clerk of the senate, with the approval of the president thereof, and the speaker of the house, determines that the business of the general court will be expedited thereby, the legislative engrossing division shall prepare for final passage by the general court an exact copy of any bill specified by said clerk, as passed to be engrossed by both branches, so far as possible by pasting a printed copy of said bill, as so passed, on the kind and size of paper designated by the said committees on rules and the copy so prepared shall be deemed to have been fairly engrossed as hereinbefore required.
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections two, three and four of chapter five, if the state secretary deems that the public convenience would be served thereby, he shall not cause said bill, as enacted into law, to be printed and published, as provided in said sections, but shall print in the publications provided for by said sections, under the chapter number of said bill as enacted, its title, the date when it becomes law and an appropriate reference indicating that the bill has been prepared for final passage as hereinbefore provided; and he shall cause five hundred copies of said bill, as enacted, to be printed and published separately in such form as he
Acts, 1973. —