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Mr. Jones offered an amendment giving $300, 000 for
the construction of a railroad through the Eastern Shore
counties of this State, from Elkton, in Cecil county, to
connect with the Eastern Shore railroad, in Somerset
county.
This amendment was debated up to the hour of ad-
journment.
FORTIETH DAY.
ANNAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1867.
Convention met at 10 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Father
Burke.
Mr. Maulsby submitted an order that when the Con-
vention adjourn today it shall be to 8 o'clock this evening,
and hereafter there shall be two sessions every day, ex-
cept Sunday, at 10 o'clock A. M., and 8 o'clock P. M., until
the business of the Convention is disposed of.
After discussion the order was laid on the table by a
vote of 50 to 44.
Mr. Maulsby submitted the following report:
RESPECTING FUTURE AMENDMENTS TO THE
CONSTITUTION.
Section 1. Any specific amendment or amendments to
this Constitution may be proposed by the General As-
sembly, provided the same shall be by bill proposing a
separate amendment which shall embody the entire ar-
ticle or section as the same will stand when amended,
and that said bill shall have passed by a vote of three-
fifths of all the members elected to each of the two houses
of the General Assembly, and shall, with the yeas and
nays thereon, be entered on the Journal of each House.
The bill or bills proposing amendment or amendments
shall be published, by order of the Governor, in at least
two newspapers in each county where so many may be
published, and where not more than one may be published,
then in that newspaper and in three newspapers pub-
lished in the city of Baltimore, one of which shall be in
the German language, for at least three months preced-
ing the next ensuing general election, at which the said
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