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Pending the consideration of which,
Mr. Wethered submitted the following amendment:
" And also that of 1851, to be printed section by section
in parallel columns. "
The question recurring upon the amendment,
On motion of Mr. Mitchell,
It was laid on the table.
Mr. Walsh submitted the following order:
Ordered, That the Committee on the Elective Franchise
be requested to take into their consideration the expediency
of inserting into the Constitution strong and efficient pro-
visions to secure to every legal voter of this State hereafter,
the free, independent and manful expression of his political
convictions at the ballot box, and that said Committee for
that purpose consider the following subjects:
First. Suitable provisions to secure at all ejections to be
held hereafter in this State, upright, impartial and inde-
pendent judges of election, and to protect them in the per-
formance of their duties, and to punish them for partiality
or corruption.
Second. Suitable provisions to. secure the independence at
the ballot box of the laborers and employees of all corpora-
tions and associations operating in this State, and to protect
them in the right of suffrage against all manner of control
or restraint by such corporations or associations, or their
agents, and to punish all such interference with the freedom
of elections by the forfeiture of their charters and other
means applicable to such corporations, associations and their
agents.
Which was adopted.
Mr. Mitchell submitted the following order:
Ordered, That it be entered on the Journal of this Con-
vention that the Hon. Vivian Brent, a delegate from Charles
county, is detained from his seat by pressing business;
Which was adopted.
Mr. Gill submitted the following order:
Ordered, That there be printed on the Journal of this
Convention a copy of the Act of Assembly under which this
Convention has been held.
Mr. Hollyday moved to amend, by inserting that para-
graph of the Governor's Message suggesting the calling of
a Convention;
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