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impeded, or said railroad shall be constructed beneath the
bed of said turnpike roads, for the same object and pur-
pose, leaving thereby the beds of said turnpike roads un-
obstructed; done so as to avoid the destruction of life and
property within the State.
USURY LAWS.
Mr. Ritchie, from the committee on the rate of interest
and the usury laws of the State, made a report recom-
mending that the following section be added to the article
on the legislative department:
"In the absence of contract the rate of interest shall
be six per cent per annum, but it shall be lawful to con-
tract for the payment of any rate of interest provided that
no greater rate than six per cent, shall be allowed or rec-
ognized unless the contract wherein the same is agreed
upon be in writing. "
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
The unfinished business, being the consideration of the
article relative to the executive department, was then
taken up, the pending question being on the motion of
Mr. Stoddert to reconsider the vote adopting the fifth
section as amended, as follows:
"A person to be eligible to the office of Governor must
have attained the age of thirty years, and must have been
for ten years a citizen of the State of Maryland, and for
five years next preceding his election a resident of the
State, and at the time of his election a qualified voter
therein. "
The motion to reconsider, after some discussion, was
lost, and the article ordered to be engrossed for a third
reading.
EDUCATION.
The report of the committee on education was then
taken up.
Section 1 was read and passed over without amend-
ment. It is as follows:
"Section 1. The General Assembly, at its first session
after the adoption of this constitution, shall, by law, es-
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