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Baltimore county was no beggar from Baltimore city.
She wanted nothing that was not her right, and that she
would have at all hazards. Baltimore county had no
hostility to Baltimore city; she sympathized with the city
in her troubles, and the manner in which she was being
plundered, but they were willing to meet them on this
section before the Legislature, and asked that it be struck
out.
Mr. Walsh thought the constitution of the State was
not the place to fix such an evanescent thing as a rule of
taxation.
Mr. Mackubin moved to strike out the words "lease-
hold property and, " which was agreed to.
Mr. Archer thought the section was couched in too in
definite terms, and should be more explicit, so as to pre-
scribe what a bona fide residence really was.
The motion to strike out was negatived by a vote of 44
to 23.
Section 48 was read and passed over without amend-
ment.
Mr. Barnes, from the committee appointed to wait on
the convention of teachers, now in session in this city,
and to extend to them an invitation to visit the session of
the Convention, reported that the teachers' convention ac-
cepted the invitation with thanks, and would visit the
Convention at 11 1/2 o'clock tomorrow.
Mr. McKaig submitted the following, which was
adopted:
Ordered, That the use of this hall be granted to Geo.
L. L. Davis, on Friday evening next, to deliver an address
upon the importance of appointing a State historiographer.
Mr. Thomas submitted the following as an additional
section to the article on the Legislative Department, to
be inserted as section 49. The General Assembly shall
appropriate no money out of the treasury for the payment
of any private claim against the State, unless said claim
shall have been first presented to the comptroller of the
treasury, together with the proofs on which the same is
founded. The comptroller shall submit said claim to the
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