Commentary for Gittin 10:12

אלא דכ"ע בעינן עדים מצויין לקיימו והכא בשליח נעשה עד ועד נעשה דיין קמיפלגי מ"ד בפני שנים קסבר שליח נעשה עד ועד נעשה דיין ומאן דאמר בפני ג' קסבר שליח נעשה עד ואין עד נעשה דיין

This is the opinion of R. Meir. But the Rabbis say that the child is not a mamzer. What should be done [to rectify matters?] The bearer should take the Get back from the woman, and then present it to her in the presence of two persons, declaring at the same time, In my presence it was written, and in my presence it was signed. [Are we to suppose then that] according to R. Meir, because the bearer failed [in the first instance] to make this declaration, the second husband has to put away the woman, and the child is a mamzer? — Yes: R. Meir in this is quite consistent; for so R. Hamnuna has told us in the name of 'Ulla, that R. Meir used to affirm: If any variation whatever is made in the procedure laid down by the Sages for writs of divorce, the second husband has to put the woman away and the child is a mamzer.

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