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SIXTY-SIXTH DAY.
ANNAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7.
Convention met at 10 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Mr.
Hammond.
Mr. Ireland presented a petition from Samuel B. Wil-
son and forty-three other citizens of Calvert county in
favor of that county being placed in the fifth judicial
circuit.
Mr. Lee submitted the following, which was adopted:
Ordered, That when all the articles designed to com-
pose the constitution shall have been read the third time
and passed, they shall be recommitted to the committee
on revision and compilation, with instructions to arrange
and compile the same in the order they ought to be to
form the entire constitution, and when they shall have
been so arranged and compiled they shall be reported to
the Convention for final approval and for the signature
of the President and secretary, after which the constitu-
tion shall be deposited in the office of the clerk of the
Court of Appeals.
The report of the committee on the treasury depart-
ment was then taken up on its third reading, and certain
verbal amendments reported by the committee on revision
and compilation were agreed to.
The committee proposed an amendment to the sixth
section, providing that in case of the removal by the Gov-
ernor of the Treasurer or Comptroller for incompetency,
malfeasance in office, &c., he shall, if the Legislature is
not in session, within thirty days thereafter summon the
Senate, and lay the case before them, when, if his action
be not confirmed, the deposed officer will be restored to
his functions.
Mr. Lee said the section as now constituted gave the
Governor power to try and remove, but the amendment
limits his power to that of suspension only, the removal
to require the consent of the Senate. It was thought that
the Governor ought not to be clothed with so large a
power over elected officers whose functions are so im-
portant. The committee submitted the amendment to the
Convention, leaving it to them to decide upon it.
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