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The Chair said he was.
Mr. Page raised the point of order that the report was
not submitted in articles according to the rules of the
Convention, and could not, therefore, be received.
The Chair sustained the point of order, and decided
that the report could not be received unless a motion to
suspend the rules was made and carried.
Mr. Peters, not wishing to cause any protracted discus-
sion, would withdraw his report.
Mr. Howison, from the committee on claims, submitted
a report fixing the per diem and mileage of the President,
officers and members of the Convention, and also recom-
mending the appointment of a revisory clerk, and to
change the style of the committee from that of the "com-
mittee on claims" to the "committee on accounts, " and,
finally, for the appointment of two additional folders.
Mr. Merryman called for the consideration of the report
seriatim.
The section providing for the appointment of two addi-
tional folders being under consideration, Mr. Bateman
asked why the committee clerks could not be detailed to
assist in the folding room?
Mr. Carey said there were two folders employed now,
which was amply sufficient. There was no difficulty in
procuring two competent persons from Baltimore, who
would do all the work. He called for the yeas and nays
on the question.
The yeas and nays being ordered, the provision was
adopted by yeas 69, nays 35.
The report having been considered, article by article
it was adopted entire. [It fixes the salary of the Presi-
dent at $10 per day, and of the secretary and assistant
secretary at $8 per day; the pay of the other officers of
the Convention to be the same as that of the members,
$5 per day; the mileage of the officers and members to be
4he^ame as that of the members of the general As^
sembly. ]
Mr. Tarr, of Caroline, submitted the following:
Ordered, That no additional officers of this Convention
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