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The consideration of the thirty-sixth section was then
proceeded with. It is as follows:
"The General Assembly shall enact no law authorizing
private property to be taken for. public use without
just compensation, as agreed upon between the parties or
awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the
party entitled to such compensation, or adequate security
shall first be given to such party, by the deposit of a
sufficient sum of money in such place and manner and
subject to such conditions as may be provided by law. "
The question was on the amendment of Mr. McCormick,
to strike out all after the word "compensation, " the sec-
ond time it occurs.
The amendment was adopted.
Section 37 was read and slightly amended.
Section 38 was read, and on motion of Mr. Dent it was
amended so as to read as follows:
"The General Assembly shall pass laws for the preser-
vation of the purity of elections. "
Mr. Barnes moved to insert "primary and all other" be-
fore the word "elections. "
The amendment was rejected, and without further ac-
tion the Convention adjourned.
FORTY-SECOND DAY.
ANNAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 29.
Convention met at 10 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Father
Burke. The roll was called, but no quorum was present
in consequence of a large number of members being with
the Presidential party.
At 10. 45 a quorum having arrived, Mr. Barnes, from
the committee on public works and corporations, sub-
mitted the following report:
ARTICLE—CITY OP BALTIMORE.
Section 1. The inhabitants of the city of Baltimore,
qualified by law to vote in said city for members of the
House of Delegates, shall, on the second Wednesday of
October, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and on the
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