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amendment or amendments, to certi- the returns to the
nest General Assembly that may convene after said election,
and said amendment or amendments shall be fully engrafted
in the Constitution, and shall become a part of it, from the
limitation of the time within which the said clerks are here-
by required to make their returns to the General Assembly ;
Which was rejected.
The Section, as amended, was then read.
Pending the consideration of Section 2,
Mr. Maulsby submitted the following amendment:
Section 2. Strike out the words, "or next after," in lines
4 and 5 ;
Which was adopted.
Mr. Mitchell submitted the following amendment:
Strike out the whole Section ;
Which was rejected.
Mr. Stoddert submitted the following amendment:
Section 2, line 6. Strike out the word "twenty," and in-
sert the word " ten ;"
Which, was rejected.
Mr. Tarr, of Caroline, submitted the following amend-
ment :
Strike out the whole Section, and insert the following:
Section 2. No Convention shall be called or convened for
revising, altering, or amending the Constitution of this
State, without provision is first made, by the General As-
sembly, for taking ike sense of the legal voters of the State
in regard to calling or convening such Convention;
Which, was rejected.
The Report, as amended, was then read a second time,
and,
On motion or Mr. Watkins, of Montgomery,
Ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
On motion of Mr. Dobbin,
The Convention then resumed the consideration of the
Report of the Committee upon the Judiciary Department,
The question recurring upon the amendment submitted by
Mr. Hammond, as a substitute for Section 19.
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