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Sparks, $104. 20; E. R. Petherbridge, $2. 45; witnesses,
&c., $2, 614—total, $11, 483. 74.
Mr. J. Hall Pleasants submitted the following, upon
which he called the previous question:
Ordered, That it is the sense of this Convention that
the question of removing the disability heretofore im-
posed on negroes to testify in courts of justice ought to
be settled by this Convention, and that the constitution
now being framed ought to contain a provision removing
such disability.
The call for the previous question being sustained, the
order was adopted, as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Carmichael, Alvey, Bell, Bennett, Brent,
Brooke, Brown, Buchanan, Carter, Chambers, Cover, Dev-
ries, Dobbin, Emach, Farnandis, Ferry, Finley, Flaherty,
Ford, Frank, Gait, Carey, George, Gittings, Gill, Golds-
borough of Talbot, Groome, Hall, Hayden, Horsey of
Frederick, Howard, Howison, Janvier, Jones, Kennedy,
Kilbourn, Lee, Longwell, Mackubin, Manro, Maulsby, Mc-
Cormick, McKaig, Merryman, Motter, Murray, Miller,
Page, Parker, John Parran, Pleasants, Pole, Ringgold,
Stoddert, Syester, Vansant, Wallace, Walsh, Wethered
and Whitman—60.
Nays—Messrs. Archer, Austin, Barnes, Bateman, Brad-
ley, Brewer of Baltimore city, Brewer of Montgomery,
Dorsey, Duvall, Evans, Franklin, Goldsborough of Dor-
chester, Hammond, Hoblitzell, Hodson, Hollyday, Horsey
of Somerset, Hubbard, Ireland, Jamison, Keating, Massey,
McMaster, Mitchell, Morris, Nelson, C. S. Parran, Perry,
Peters, Rennolds, Rider, Riggs, Ritchie, Silver, Spates,
Tarr, Thomas, Toadvine, Watkins of Caroline, Wickes and
Wilkinson—41.
Absent or not voting, 17.
Mr. Farnandis submitted the following:
Ordered, That it is the sense of this Convention that
the provision for the admission of negro testimony be in-
serted in the article of the constitution on the legislative
department.
Mr. Farnandis argued ably in favor of the proposition
submitted by him. When principle was involved, com-
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