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Ott motion of Mr. McHenry,
The amendment offered by him was further amnded by adding
at the end thereof the following

"Or the sinking fund shall be equal to the amount of the out
standing debt;"

The question then recurred upon the adoption of the substitute
as offered by Mr. Crisfield.

Mr. Brown, moved the question be taken by yeas and nays,
and being ordered appeared as follows

AFFIRMATIVE.—Messrs. Ricaud, Lee, Chambers, of Kent,
Mitchell, Donaldson, Dorsey, Wells, Randall, Kent, Sellman,
Crisfield, Sprigg, MeCubbin and Davis—14.

NEGATIVE —Messrs. Chapman, Pres't, Blakistone, Dent, Hope
well, Weems, Dalrymple, Bond, Sollers, Jenifer, Bell, Welch,
Ridgely, Lloyd, Colston, Dashiell, Hicks, Hodson, Goldsborough,
Eccleston, Chambers, of Cecil, McCullough, Miller, Bowie,
Bowling, Spencer, Grason, George, McMaster, Pooks, Thomas,
Shriver, Gaither, Annan, Sappington, Stephenson, McHenry,
Magraw, Thawley, Hardcastle, Gwinn, Sherwood, of Baltimore
city, Presstman, Ware, Schley, Fiery, Neill, John Newcomer,
Michael Newcomer, Weber, Hollyday, Slicer, Parke, Ege, Cockey
and Brown—55.
So the Convention refused to accept the substitute.

The question then recurred and was put on the adoption of
the amendment as offered by Mr. McHenry, and amended on the
motion of Mr. Spencer, and

Determined in the affirmative.

The question then recurred upon the amendment. as offered by
Mr. George, as the 21st section of the report, and amended on the
motion of Mr. McHenry, and

Determined in the affirmative.

Mr. Blakistone then moved to amend said report by inserting as
an additional section the following:

"That it shall be the duty of the Legislature so soon as the
public debt shall have been frilly paid off, to cause to be transfered
to the several counties ani city of Baltimore stock in the internal
improvement companies, equal to the amount respectively paid by
each towards the erection and completion of said works, at the
then market value of said stock. it shall further be the duty
of the Legislature after the public debt shall have been fully
paid off, or the sinking fund shall he sufficient to redeem the same
at maturity, to appropriate such portions of the annual revenue of
the State stocks in the internal improvement companies of this
State, (after deducting so much, together with the other annual
revenues of the State as may be necessary to meet the current ex
penses, and any sudden exigences that may arise;) equally among
said counties and the city of Baltimore, having a just regard to