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last, shall at any time hereafter be qualified to hold any office of
profit or trust in this state, unless by act of the general assembly?"
Carried in the negative.

AFFIRMATIVE.

Mr. Barnes, Mr. Marbury, Mr. Beall,

Hooe, J. Hall, Stull,

Dent, Worthington J. T. Chase,

Parnham, S. Chase, Gilpin,

Bowie, Bayly, D. Smith,

B. Hall, Sheredine, Kent.

Sprigg, Edelen,

NEGATIVE.

Mr. Fenwick, Mr. Deye, Mr. Gibson,
Plater, Stevenson, Mason,
Fitzhugh, Shepherd, Dickinson,
J. Mackall, Bond, Johnson,
J. Wilson, Love, Gust. Scott,
William^ Archer, Geo. Scott,
Fischer, Brevard, Horsey,
Schriver, T. Smyth, Bishop,
Ridgely, S. Wright, Mitchell.
The convention having gone through the form of government
paragraph by paragraph, and made several additions and amend-
ments, the same was agreed to as follows:

THE CONSTITUTION AND FORM OF GOVERNMENT, AGREED TO BY THE
DELEGATES OF MARYLAND IN FREE AND FULL CONVENTION AS-
BEMBLED.

1. That the legislature consist of two distinct branches, a sen-
ate, and a house of delegates, which shall be styled the General As-
sembly of Maryland.

2. That the house of delegates shall be chosen in the follow-
ing manner: All freemen, above twenty-one years of age, having a
freehold of fifty acres of land in the county in which they offer to
vote, and residing therein, and all freemen, having property in this
state above the value of thirty pounds current money, and having
resided in the county in which they offer to vote one whole year
next preceding the election, shall have a right of suffrage in the
election of delegates for such county; and all freemen so qualified
shall, on the first Monday of October, seventeen hundred and seven-
ty-seven, and on the same day in every year thereafter, assemble in
the counties in which they are respectively qualified to vote, at the