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Decided in the negative.
The question then recurring upon the order submitted by
Mr. Gill,
It was adopted.
The following is the Act printed under the order submitted
by Mr. Gill:
An Act to provide for taking the sense of the people of this
State on the call of a Convention to frame a new Constitu-
tion and form of government, and for assembling the mem-
bers thereof.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That on the second Wednesday of April next, at the
same places where county and city elections are now by law
held for the election of Delegates to the General Assembly,
every person entitled to vote for Delegates to the General
Assembly shall vote on the question of a call of a Convention
to frame a new Constitution and form of government, with a
clause therein prohibiting the Legislature from making any
law providing for payment by this State, for persons hereto-
fore held as slaves, by expressing in writing or by printed
form the words " For a Convention" or " Against a Conven-
tion, " as the case maybe, and in case there shall be any
ballots without the designation so prescribed, the same shall
not be counted for or against a Convention, but a separate
return thereof shall be made by the Judges of Election.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That at the said election the
registered voters of the State shall elect by ballot delegates
to the said Convention, whose qualifications shall be the
game as those now required for members of the House of
Delegates, and each county and the city of Baltimore, shall
be entitled to elect respectively the number of delegates to
said Convention herein provided, namely: St. Mary's coun-
ty, three delegates; Kent county, four delegates; Calvert
county, three delegates; Charles county, three delegates;
' Baltimore county, seven delegates; Talbot county, four del-
egates; Somerset county, five delegates; Dorchester county,
four delegates; Cecil county, five delegates; Prince George's
county, four delegates; Queen Anne's county, four dele-
gates; Worcester county, five delegates; Frederick county,
seven delegates; Harford county, five delegates; Caroline
county, four delegates; Baltimore city, twenty-one dele-
gates; Montgomery county, four delegates; Allegany coun-
ty, six delegates; Carroll county, six delegates; Howard
county, four delegates; Anne Arundel county, four dele-
gates; Washington county, six delegates; and it is hereby
provided that the sheriff of the several counties and the
sheriff of Baltimore city, shall give notice of the day above
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