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paid within twenty years, and those to meet temporary deficiencies
wihin two years from the respective daes thereof.
Sec. 22. The credit of the State shall not, in any manner be
given or loaned to, or in aid of any individual, association or cor
poration.
Sec. 23. This State shall never embaik in works of Internal
Improvement, nor in pecuniary adventures of any kind.
Mr. Brown, moved the Convention adjourn;
Determined in the affirmative, and
The Convention accordingly adjourned until to-morrow morn
ing 10 o'clock.

WEDNESDAY, February 26th, 1851.

The Convention met.
Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Griffith
The proceedings of yesterday were read.
Mr. Smith, from the select committee on New Counties, sub
mitted the following
REPORT:

When that part of .Allegany, lying South and West of a line
beginning at the summit of Big Back Bone, or Savage Mountain;
where the Mountain is crossed by Mason and Dixon's line, and
running thence by a straight line to the middle of Savage river,
where it empties into the Potomac river, thence by a straight line
to the nearest point or boundary of the State of Virginia; then
with said boundary to the Fairfax Stone, shall contain a popula
tion of ten thousand, and the majority of electors thereof shall de
sire to separate and form a New County, and make known their
desires by petition to the Legislature, the Legislature shall
direct at the next succeeding election, that the Judges shall open
a book at each election district in said part of Allegany county,
and have recorded therein the vote of each elector, "for or
against," a new county, in case the majority, (or two-thirds) are
in favor, the said part of Allegany county, to be declared an

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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