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Mr, Walsh submitted the following amendment to be in-
serted as Section 3:
Sec. 3. The Board of Public Works shall cast the vote of
the State of Maryland as stockholder in the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company, at the meetings of the Stockholders of
said company, for President and Directors of said Company,
for President and two Directors of said Company of their own
selection, and for two Directors to be nominated in. writing
by the Trustees under the mortgage executed by said Com
pany in pursuance of the act of 1844, chapter 281, and their
successors, and for two Directors to be nominated in writing
by the Trustees of the Scripholders and other creditors of
said Company except the State of Maryland and the State of
Virginia, and the holders of Repair Bonds (the mode of ap-
pointing which Trustees is hereinafter provided for,) hut no
person shall be chosen as President of said Company who shall
not have been for five years next preceding his election a
citizen of the State of Maryland, and resident of Allegany
county, and four of the Directors shall be citizens of the State
of Maryland, and residents of the counties of Allegany, Wash-
ington, Frederick or Montgomery, and one a resident of the
District of Columbia, but not more than two of said Directors
shall be residents of the same county at the time of their elec-
tion, or during their continuance in office.
Sec. —. As soon as practicable after the adoption of this
Constitution one or more of said creditors may give notice, to
be published for three weeks successively in one or more
newspapers printed in the counties of Allegany, Washington,
Frederick and Montgomery, and in any other papers if deemed
expedient, of a general meeting of said creditors to be held in
the city of Cumberland on a day to be named in said notice,
for the purpose of electing three Trustees to represent said
creditors, and make the nomination in writing from time to
time of said two Directors to the Board of Public Works, and
said Trustees shall he elected for two years, and until their
successors are elected; and at the first meeting of said credi-
tors they shall fix such time and place of holding their next and
other meetings for the election of Trustees, in such manner of
giving notice thereof as they may deem expedient, and at all
meetings of said creditors a majority in amount of the debts
represented at the meeting shall be sufficient to elect said
Trustees, or decide any proposition that may come before
the meeting; and the evidence of the right of any one to
participate as a creditor in said meetings shall he the scrip, or
certificate of the Secretary of the Company, or an authenti-
cated copy of a judgment against said Company, or such other
evidence of indebtedness of said Company as said creditors
ai such meetings may deem sufficient.
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