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nate in committee of the whole on Wednesday the 22nd inst., at
2 o'clock, P. M., when each amendment pending, or which may
be offered shall be passed upon, without any further discussion than
explanatory remarks, not extending beyond five minutes by the
several proposers of such amendments.

Which was ready and
On his motion postponed until to-morrow.
The President laid before the Convention a report from the
clerk to the Commissioners of the tax for Carroll county, in obedi
ence to the order of the Convention in relation to fees allowed and
paid to the Attorney General and his Deputies by said county.
Which was read, and
Referred to the committee appointed on the Attorney General
and his Deputies.
The hour having arrived for taking up the order of the day.
On motion of Mr. Phelps,
The Convention again resolved itself into a committee of the
whole upon the report submitted by Mr. Chambers, of Kent, on
the 13th ult., as chairman of the committee on the Elective
Franchise, (Mr. Blakistone, being in the Chair,) the following
proceedings occurred in committee of the whole:
The question pending before the committee being on the amend.
ments offered by Mr. Ricaud, on Saturday the 18th, to amend the
amendment offered by Mr. Jenifer, by inserting after the word
"Maryland," the following: "and from time to time thereafter, of
all who may become such qualified electors."
Mr. Jenifer accepted this amendment.
Time question was then put on the 2nd amendment as offered
by Mr. Ricaud, by adding at the end thereof the following : "or
some other uniform provision whereby the legal and qualified
electors may he fully and truly ascertained, and the Elective
Franchise protected from all fraud,"
Determined in the negative.
The question then recurred upon the amendment as offered by
Mr. Kilgour, to amend the amendment offered by Mr. Jenifer, to
strike out in the 1st line the word ‘‘may," and insert in lieu there
of "shall not;"
Mr. James U. Dennis, moved to amend said amendment by
striking out the word "may," in the 1st line, and insert
Determined in the negative.
Mr. Morgan, moved to amend said amendment offered by Mr.
Jenifer, by striking out all after the words ‘‘the Legislature,'' and
inserting in lieu thereof the following
"Ought from time to time to pass such laws as in their wisdom
may be deemed necessary to ascertain the legal and qualified
voters of the State, and to protect the Elective Franchise from all
fraud;"