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FOURTH DAY.
ANNAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1867.
The proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev.
Father Burke.
Messrs. Jos. P. Merryman, of the 3d district of Balti-
more city, and John T. Stoddert, of Charles county, dele-
gates elect, appeared and qualified.
Mr. Benson offered the following:
Ordered, That this Convention tomorrow at noon pro-
ceed to the election, by ballot, of a reporter in chief for
the debates and proceedings of this Convention. Adopted.
The chair presented a communication from Col. Wm.
J. Leonard, comptroller of the currency, enclosing, in an-
swer to order of the Convention, a statement of the
amounts paid to special judges and counsel out of the
State treasury since the year 1852.
The President announced the following appointments
of officers:
Hallkeeper, Mr. Murdoch, of Annapolis; lamplighter,
John V. Lowe, of Talbot county; folders, David Barry, of
Prince George's county, and Jas. Coon, of Washington
county; pages, John M. Cape, of Anne Arundel county;
Anthony Neale, of Charles county; Harry H. Somers, of
Montgomery county, and J. J. Grindell, of Baltimore city.
Mr. Giddings offered the following:
Ordered, That a committee of members be appointed by
the President to consider the propriety of organizing a de-
partment of the State government to be known as the de-
partment of labor and agriculture, and if, in their judg-
ment, the establishment of such a department would be
beneficial to the people of Maryland, then to report to
this Convention a plan for the same.
Mr. Devries offered the following as a substitute:
Ordered, That a special committee of one from each
county and one from the city of Baltimore be appointed
by the President on agriculture and public roads.
Mr. Brown thought any such bureau would be wholly
ineffectual. Labor might be induced to come here, but it
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