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reconsider the 22nd rule, for the purpose of amending the same by
striking out these words "nor shall any subject be a second time
reconsidered without the consent of the Convention,"
The Convention then resumed the consideration of the order
of the day, being the report submitted by Mr. Johnson, chairman
of the committee on the Legislative Department, on the 25th ult.
The question pending before the Convention being on the
amendment ofiered by Mr. Merrick on yesterday, to the amend.
merit offeied by Mr. Jacobs;
Mr. Jacobs, withdrew the amendment offered by him on yester
day, and substituted in lieu of it the following:
"The Legislature shall not repeal the taxes now imposed for the
payment of the public debt, until the revenues and funds of the
State shall he sufficient to ensure its ultimate extinguishmentwith
in the period limited for its payment; and when the public debt is
paid, the surplus revenuesderived from the public works of the
State, after defraying the necessary expenses of the government
shall be distributed according to the mode provided by the resolu
tion No. 47, of the General Assembly, of December session, pass
ed 1833."
Which was read.
Mr. Donaldson, moved for a division of the question on each
branch of said amendment.
The question was then put on the 1st branch of said amend
ment, being in these words:
"The Legislature shall not repeal the taxes now imposed for the
payment of the public debt, until the revenues and funds of the
State shall be sufficient to ensure its ultimate extinguishment
within the period limited for its payment;"
Mr. Jenifer, moved to amend the 1st branch of said amendment,
by adding at the end thereof these words "except by an act pass
ed at one session, submitted to the people, and re-enacted at the
next succeeding session of the Legislature;"
Determined in the negative.
The question then recurred upon the 1st branch of the amend
ment as offered by Mr. Jacobs.
Mr. Brown, moved the question be taken by yeas and nays,
and being ordered appeared as follows
AFFIRMATIVE—Messrs. Chapman, Pres't, Blakistone, Ricaud,
Lee, Chambers, of Kent, Donaldson, Wells, Crisfield, Dashiell,
Williams, Hodson, Phelps, Bowling, McMaster, Fooks, Jacobs
and Waters--16.
NEGATIV E—Messrs. Morgan, Dent, Hopewell, Sellman, Weems,
Sollers, Jenifer, Buchanan, Bell, Welch, Chandler, Ridgely,
Lloyd, Dickinson, Sherwood, of Talbot, Colston, James U.
Dennis, Constable, Chambers, of Cecil, Miller, McCubbin,
Grason, George, Wright, Thomas, Shriver, Gaither, Biser, Sap-