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The article on labor and agriculture was then taken up,
and no amendments being reported by the committee on
revision and compilation, it was put on its final passage,
when it was rejected by yeas 54, nays 21—sixty affirma-
tive votes being required.
Mr. Giddings gave notice that as the House was now
very thin he would move to reconsider the vote rejecting
the bill.
The report of the committee on education was then
taken up on its third reading, and no amendments were
reported by the committee on revision and compilation.
Mr. Rider asked to open the report to an amendment
that the present system shall remain in force until a dif-
ferent system is prescribed by the General Assembly.
Mr. Roman said that there was some danger that unless
an amendment of this nature was adopted the State would
be left without any system of education after the ad-
journment of the next Legislature.
Mr. Stoddert was opposed to the amendment, because it
was a direct invitation to those who were interested to
bring all sorts of influences to bear to prevent the adop-
tion of a new system by the Legislature.
The Convention refused to entertain the amendment.
The bill was then passed, yeas 68, nays 5—Messrs.
Brown, Franklin, Horsey of Somerset, McMaster and
Watkins of Caroline.
On motion of Mr. Carter, the unfinished business, being
the report of the committee to whom was referred all such
parts of the present constitution as had not been referred
to any other committee, was taken up, the article "New
Counties" being under consideration, and the question be-
ing on the amendment of Mr. Dent to strike out the word
"white" wherever it occurred.
Mr. Maulsby asked whether the effect of the amend-
ment would not be that in case of the presence of ten
thousand of the superior race to ourselves, they would
have the power to erect a county for themselves, apart
from all contact with their inferior and unfortunate white
brethren ?
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