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partment be instructed to consider the expediency of mak-
ing it the duty of the Legislature, as soon as the public
debt shall have been paid off, to cause to be transferred
to the several counties and the city of Baltimore stock in
the internal improvement companies equal to the amount
respectively paid by each towards the construction and
completion of said works, at the market value of said
stock, to the support of free schools, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, and any balance to be used at the
discretion of the counties and the city of Baltimore for
their respective benefit.
Without further action, the Convention then adjourned.
TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY.
ANNAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1867.
Convention met at 10 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Mr.
Henderson.
The Chair presented communications from clerks of
Circuit Courts, &c., in answer to orders of the Convention.
The order submitted by Mr. Gill yesterday, in reference
to the mayor and city council of Baltimore, and laid
over, was taken up, read, and passed over informally.
The order submitted yesterday, at the close of the ses-
sion, by Mr. Stoddert was taken up and adopted.
The report of the committee upon the Attorney General
and State's Attorneys was taken up.
Section 1 was read and passed over without amend-
ment.
Section two was read.
Mr. Mackubin moved to amend by making the salary
of the Attorney General $2, 500 instead of $3, 000.
On this proposed amendment a protracted debate en-
sued, but it was finally defeated.
Mr. Watkins, of Montgomery county, moved to amend
by adding at the end of the second section, "provided the
Governor shall not employ any additional counsel in any
case whatever, unless authorized by the General Assem-
bly, " which was adopted.
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