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ing Committee of the Senate and House of Delegates, who
shall have power to send for persons and examine them on
oath, and call for public official papers and records, and,
whose duty it shall be to examine and report upon all con-
tracts made for printing, stationary and purchases for public
offices and the Library, and all appurtenances therein, and
upon all matters of alleged abuse in expenditures to which
their attention may be called by resolution of either House
of the General 'Assembly.''
Which was adopted.
The section as amended was then read.
The 21st, and 22d sections were then read.
Pending the reading of the 23d section ;
Mr. Jones submitted the following amendment:
Add at end of section 23, "and no bill shall be read a
third time until it shall have been actually engrossed,"
Which was adopted.
Mr. Dobbin, Chairman of the Select Committee, (by una-
nimous consent,) submitted the following
REPORT:
To the Honorable, the Convention of Maryland:
The Committee appointed on behalf of the Convention to
confer with his Excellency the Governor, and the President
of the Convention, as to the measures proper to betaken to give
an appropriate reception to the President of the United
States, on his contemplated visit to the Capitol of Maryland,
beg leave to report that they have had the proposed confer-
ence, at which it was agreed that it would be proper that a
Committee from the Convention, consisting of one member
from each county and one from each Legislative District of
the city of Baltimore, should be appointed to meet the Pre-
sident at the city of Baltimore, and conduct him to Anna-
polis, and they recommend that the counties and Districts of
Baltimore shall respectively appoint their representations on
said Committee.
GEORGE W. DOBBIN,
W. MITCHELL,
ANTHONY KENNEDY.
Which was unanimously adopted.
Mr. Page, (by unanimous consent,) presented the remon-
strance of sixty-eight citizens of Somerset county, residing;
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