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a committee on review and compilation, to consist of five
members.
The Convention, at 2. 15 P. M., adjourned.
TENTH DAY.
ANNAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1867.
Convention met at one o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Mr.
Hammond.
The chair presented sundry communications from
clerks of the different county commissioners, from which
it appears that the following sums were paid for the ac-
counts stated:
For judges of Orphans' Court of Dorchester county,
for year 1866, $532; judges of Orphans' Court of Mont-
gomery county, for year 1866, $692; school commissioners
of Montgomery county, for year 1866, $1, 417. 90; State's
attorney for Howard county, for years 1864, 1865, 1866
and 1867, $4, 866. 44; school commissioners of Howard
county, for year 1866, $1, 200; clerk of Circuit Court of
Howard county, from 1852 to 1867, $18, 166. 10; judges of
Orphans' Court of Howard county, for year 1866, $356;
judges of Orphans' Court of Queen Anne's county, for
year 1866, $516; school commissioners of Cecil county,
for year 1866, $2, 289. 30; State's attorney of Cecil county,
for year 1866, $1, 016. 56; clerk of Circuit Court of Cecil
county, for year 1866, $1, 501. 50.
Also communications showing the number of indict-
ments found and cases tried in the Circuit Courts. From
the report of the clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore
city, it appears that in 1865, 537 suits were instituted and
368 tried and determined; in 1866, 550 were instituted
and 421 tried and determined. There was but one jury
trial in the two years.
Mr. Vansant submitted the following, which was re-
ferred to the committee on the legislative department:
Ordered, That the committee on the legislative depart-
ment inquire into the expediency and propriety of pro-
moting the efficiency of the General Assembly of the
State, and of maintaining the integrity of its character
by inserting a feature in the constitution requiring the
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