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bly have power in any mode, except as hereinafter pro-
vided, to involve the several counties, cities and munici-
pal corporations, or any of them, in the construction of
works of internal improvement, nor in granting any aid
thereto, which shall involve the faith or credit of the
several counties, cities and municipal corporations, or
any of them, of the State, unless the act of Assembly au-
thorizing the faith and credit of the county, city, or mu-
nicipal corporation proposed to be loaned or given in aid
of such works, be submitted by a direct vote to the tax-
able voters of the county, city or municipal corporation
whose faith and credit is proposed to be loaned, at such
time and manner as may be prescribed in the act, and a
majority of the taxable voters of the county, city or mu-
nicipal corporation shall signify their assent and affirma-
tion to such law.
On motion of Mr. Marbury, it was
Ordered, That the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com-
pany furnish to this Convention a detailed statement of
all the debts due by it, with the dates at which they were
contracted, and specifying which are preferred claims
and liens and which are not, and copies of its annual re-
ports to the stockholders from the year 1848 to the pres-
ent time, to show the revenues and receipts of said com-
pany, and how the same was expended and what amount
of money is now in the treasury of the company.
The unfinished business, being the report of the com-
mittee on the executive department, was then taken up
Mr. Alvey moved to reconsider the first section, as he
understood by it, as at present constituted, that the G<
ernor would always be elected fourteen months before he
entered on the duties of his office.
Mr. Carter explained that such would not be the effect.
The Governor to be elected in November, 1867, would
not enter upon his duties for fourteen months after his
election, so as not to abridge the term of the present in-
cumbent, but he would only actually discharge the duties
of the office for three years. This would not be the case
hereafter; all the succeeding Governors would serve for
four years, and enter on the discharge of their duties on
the January succeeding their election.
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