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sembly; and the President of this Convention is hereby author-
ized and directed to pay James Wingate one hundred dollars,
for preparing said carefully elaborated index and side notes to
said Constitution, and also two dollars per copy for said Con-
stitution, when published by James Wingate.

On motion of Mr. Jones, of Somerset,
The consideration of the subject was informally postponed.

Mr. Hebb moved to suspend the Rules to receive the report
of the Committee on Revision and Engrossment;

Decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Earle, from the Committee on Revision and Engross-
ment submitted a report, recommending certain alterations
in the reports of the Committee on the Treasury Department,
Amendments to the Constitution, Tenure of Office, Duties,
&c., of Civil Officers, Legislative Department, Judiciary
Department;

Which report was concurred in.
On motion of Mr. Chambers,
The Convention took a recess until half-past three o'clock.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

The Convention met at 3| o'clock, P. M.

All the members present except the following:

Messrs. Barron, Belt, Berry, of Prince George's, Billings-
ley, Blackiston, Briscoe, Chambers, Clarke, Davis, of Wash-
ington, Dennis, Edelen, Gale, Harwood, Henkle, Hodson,
Hopkins, Hopper, Johnson, King, Mace, Marbury, McComas,
Miller, Noble, Nyman, Peter, Pugh, Robinette, Sands,
Smith, of Carroll, Smith, of Worcester, Sykes, Thomas,
Thruston—34.

Mr. Davis, of Charles, submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That it is the sense of this Convention, that all
Constitutions framed by Conventions, called by the voters of