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ard. What was a dollar? Was it the miserable piece of
floating paper which we carried in our pockets ? No, that
was a legal lie. The salaries, then, should be made pay-
able in gold or its equivalent.
The motion to insert $3, 500 was then put, and decided
in the negative, all of the Baltimore delegation voting
in the affirmative with the exception of Mr. Carter.
Mr. McKaig, when his name was called, said that the
salary of the Governor had been placed at $4, 500, and he
found that nearly all of the lawyers in the State were
aspiring to that position. A mere lawyer, being of less
account than the Governor, should not receive so much
of a salary, but should be much lower down the scale,
and he would, therefore, vote no.
The motion of Mr. Carter to insert $3, 000 was ther.
agreed to.
Section nine was read.
Mr. Nelson moved to insert two years instead of one.
Agreed to.
Sections ten and eleven were read and passed over
without amendment.
The article was ordered to be engrossed, and the Con-
vention adjourned.
TWENTY-NINTH DAY.
ANNAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1867.
The Convention met at 10 o'clock—prayer by Rev.
Father Burke.
Mr. Gill called up the order submitted by him in ref-
erence to the mayor and city council of Baltimore, and
proposed a substitute as follows:
Ordered, That the committee on corporations be in-
structed to investigate such of the proceedings of the
mayor and city Council of Baltimore as may be deemed
necessary by such committee, and particularly relative
to the endorsement by the city of Baltimore of the Union
Railroad Company's bonds, and to the building of the new-
city hall, and that John H. Barnes, Outerbridge, Horsey
and Fendall Marbury, members of said committee, be a
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