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 This draft was 'seen and copied' by Baldassari, who affirms its contents to have empowered the Dean, with two or three colleagues, to name the locality for the election of the new Pope, the Cardinals being authorized to give their votes in Conclave by proxy left with one of their body, and to have dispensed from all enjoined rites and prescriptions connected with a Pontifical election, except the obligation of a majority of  two-thirds to render a result canonical. The innovation in this Bull is sufficiently great to impress us with a sense of the counsellor's daring who conceived it, and to render intelligible the repugnance which the proposal met with. It has been ruled over and over again in Pontifical canons, that the major penalties should befall any Cardinal presuming to concert for a Pontifical election—the Pope being yet alive and not privy thereto;