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The President appointed Wm. Harwood, in pursuance of
the order just adopted, as a clerk to assist the Clerk and Com-
mittee of Revision and Compilation.
Mr. Lee submitted the following order :
Ordered, That when all the Articles designed to compose
the Constitution shall have been read the third time and
passed, they shall be recommitted to the Committee on Re-
vision and Compilation, with instructions to arrange and
compile the same in the order they ought to be to form the
entire Constitution, and when they shall have been so
arranged and compiled, they shall be reported to the Conven-
tion for final approval, and for the signature of the President
and attestation of the Secretary, after which the Constitution
shall be deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Court of
Appeals.
Feuding the consideration of which,
Mr. Peters submitted the following amendment:
After the word "President," insert "and the signatures of
such of the members of the Convention as may be present,"
Which was rejected.
The question then recurring upon the order submitted by
Mr. Lee,
It was adopted.
Mr. Ford submitted the following order :
Ordered, That it be entered on the Journal that John F.
Dent is absent from this Convention on account of the illness
of a member of his family ;
Which was adopted.
The hour having arrived for taking up the order of the
day,
The Convention proceeded to the consideration of the Re-
port of the Committee upon the Treasury Department, said
Report being upon a third reading.
On motion of Mr. Lee,
The Report was opened for amendment by the Committee
upon Revision and Compilation.
Mr, Lee, Chairman of the Committee upon Revision and
Compilation, submitted the following Report:
The Committee on Revision and Compilation, to which
was referred the Engrossed Report of the Committee upon
the Treasury Department, has carefully revised the same,
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