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clerk of the county commissioners of Anne Arundel coun-
ty, stating that the amount levied for the judges of the
Orphans' Court of that county, for the year 1866, was
$860.
On motion of Mr. Mitchell, it was ordered to be entered
on the journal that Vivian Brent, delegate from Charles
county, is detained from his seat by pressing business.
On motion of Mr. Walsh, of Allegany, it was
Ordered, That the committee on the elective franchise
be requested to take into consideration the expediency of
inserting in the constitution strong efficient provisions to
secure to every legal voter of this State hereafter the
free, independent manifestation of his political convic-
tions at the ballot-box, and that said committee, for that
purpose, consider the following subjects:
First. Suitable provisions to secure, at all elections to
be held hereafter in this State, upright, impartial and in-
dependent judges of election, and to protect them in the
performance of their duties, and to punish them for
partiality or corruption.
Second. Suitable provisions to secure the independence
at the ballot-box of the laborers and employees of all cor-
porations and associations operating in this State, and to
protect them in the right of suffrage against all manner
of control or restraint by such corporations or associa-
tions, or their agents, and to punish all such interference
with the freedom of elections by forfeiture of their char-
ters, and other means applicable to such corporations, as-
sociations and their agents.
On motion of Mr. Gill, it was
Ordered, That there be printed on the journal of this
Convention a copy of the act of Assembly under which
this Convention ha& been held. —— ———
On motion of Mr. Bateman, it was
Ordered, That the clerks of the county commissioners
of the several counties of this State be requested to re-
port at the earliest practicable day to this Convention the
several amounts of money levied and paid to the clerks
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