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annum, unless otherwise provided by the General As-
sembly. "
The report was then ordered to be engrossed for a third
reading.
The President announced the appointment of Messrs.
Hammond, Jones, Horsey, McMaster, Tarr, Toadvine,
Rider, Archer, Mitchell, Alvey and Gill as a committee to
consider and report upon the various petitions and me-
morials presented to the Convention from citizens of Som-
erset and Worcester counties relative to the formation of
a new county out of portions of those counties.
On motion of Mr. Barry, the Convention went into com-
mittee of the whole, with Mr. Jones, of Somerset, in the
chair, and the report of the committee on education was
taken up.
Mr. Carter moved that the committee rise and report
progress to the House, which was agreed to.
The report of the committee was accepted, and the
Convention then took up the report of the committee on
education, the second section being under consideration.
Mr. Barry said so many amendments had been pro-
posed, and so many gentlemen had expressed views dia-
metrically opposite, and they had been wafted so far into
the ocean of debate, that it was difficult to determine
what really was the opinion of the Convention. There
had been but one single member on the floor who had
declared in favor of the present system; it had but one
friend here.
He (Mr. B. ) thought the article, as reported by the
committee, should be adopted, as the Legislature would
have the power to create a new system, and it would be
perfectly competent to give to the city of Baltimore such
a system as she now has, or any system which she may
desire in lieu of it. He was in favor of leaving this matter
to the Legislature, where it properly belonged. Without
using the term in any sense of disrespect, he must say
that the Convention had got itself into a muddle on the
whole subject, and he hoped that, as the matter had been
thoroughly discussed, the article would be adopted as
reported by the committee.
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