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and clerks of voters in Dorchester county, for 1866, $2, -
506. 06; printing lists for 1866, $238—total, $2, 744. 06
Amount paid in Dorchester county for 1867, $1, 360. 59;
printing lists for 1867, $516—total, $1, 876. 59. Registers,
clerks, &c., in Cecil county for 1865, $2, 352. 12; printing
lists for 1865, $556. 75—total, $2, 908. 87.
On motion of Mr. Longwell, it was
Ordered, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be re-
quested to report to this Convention, at as early a day as
practicable, the aggregate amount of moneys paid out of
the treasury on account of public printing ordered by the
last Legislature, particularly specifying the amounts paid
for printing the first annual report of the Superintendent
of Public Instruction.
Mr. Longwell understood that the printing of this re-
port had cost $20, 000, nearly one-half the cost of the
judiciary of the State.
The unfinished business, being the report of the com-
mittee on the executive department, was then taken up,
the seventeenth section being the section under consider-
ation, and the question being on the substitute offered by
Mr. Rider, providing that a majority of the members of
the two houses of the General Assembly shall be sufficient
to pass a bill over the veto of the Governor.
Mr. Peters took the floor and read an argument against
the amendment.
Mr. Gill said this was one of the most important sub-
jects yet under consideration, or to be under considera-
tion, and he therefore desired to give his reasons for op-
posing the substitute. He would read from the 24th sec-
tion of the article reported by the committee on the legis-
lative department, where it is provided that a majority of
all the members elected shall be necessary to pass a bill,
and if the amendment now pending is adopted, the same
number will only be required to pass a bill over the veto,
and he would like to know what protection would then be
given. He wanted something practical, and either desired
that we shall have no veto power, or if we are to have it,
that it will answer the purposes for which it only ought
to be granted to the Governor. This amendment would
destroy its energy, its power and its usefulness. The
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