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hundred or more. Was there any man such a dreamer,
such a child, as to imagine that the powers at Washington
would dare to enforce negro suffrage? Those who read
the signs of the times know that the doom of the rad-
icals is written on the wall.
The question was then taken on the substitute offered
by Mr. Rider, which was rejected by a vote of 67 to 24.
Mr. Wickes moved to strike out the whole section, upon
which, the yeas and nays being called, the motion to
strike out was decided in the negative—yeas 24, nays 64.
Several other amendments were then offered, but with-
out further action, the Convention adjourned.
A collection was taken up today among the members by
S. W. Starr, Esq., of the Baltimore county delegation, for
the relief of the destitute poor of the Southern States
which amounted to over $400. It will be deposited to the
credit of Mrs. B. C. Howard, president of the Southern
Relief Association.
The deliberations of the Convention are witnessed daily
by large parties of ladies and gentlemen from Baltimore,
who avail themselves of the delightful trips down the bay
afforded by the splendid boats of the Individual Enter-
prise Company.
TWENTY-FOURTH DAY.
ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1867.
The Convention met at half-past ten o'clock, prayer by
the Rev. Mr. Leech.
The Chair presented communications from clerks of
county commissioners showing the following amounts
paid for the purposes named: Registers, &c., of Talbot
county, 1866, $792; printing lists, $158—total, $950. Reg-
isters, &c., Somerset county, 1866, $2, 645. 51; printing lists
of voters, $340. 50—total, $2, 985. 01.
Also a communication from Col. W. J. Leonard, comp-
troller of the currency, in answer to a resolution of the
Convention, containing the following information:
Amount of printing done by order of the General Assem-
bly of 1867, per contract, $60, 806. 43; amount of bills for
printing the reports of the State Superintendent of Public
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