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Mr. Blakistone, moved that said report he referred to a select
committee of seven to be appointed by the Chair.

Determined in the affirmative.

Mr. Blakistone, requested of the Chair, that he should not be
appointed a member of said committee.
The Chair thereupon appointed Messrs. Sollers, Shriver, Bowie,
Howard, Williams, Lloyd and McHenry, to compose said con
mi ite e.
The Convention then resumed the consideration of the report of
the committee on the Executive Department.
Mr. Mc Henry moved to amend said report by adding at time end
thereof as an additionnal section the following:
Sec. Every bill, resolution or act, which shall have passed t he
General Assembly, shall before it becomes a law, be presented to
the Governor; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not, he shall re
turn it with his objections, to that House in which it shall have
originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal
and proceed to reconsider it If, after such reconsideration, two
thirds of each house shall agree to pass such bill, resolution or act,
it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both
houses shall be taken by yeas and nays, which shall be entered on
their respective journals. If any bill, resolution or act, shall not
be ret urned by the Governor within five days afier it shall have
been presented to hi m, the same shall become a law in like man
ner as if he had signed it, unless the General Assembly by its adjourn
ment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law;
Which was read, and
On motion of Mr. Bowie,
Postponed until to-morrow.
Mr. Bowie from the committee on Printing, submitted the fol
low i ng

REPORT:
The committee on printing to whom was referred the letter of
Henry G. Wheeler, the Reporter to the Convention, beg leave to
report, that the fund heretofore appropriated to meet the expense in
curred in the reports of the debates of the Convention will soon be
exhausted. When the contract was made with the Reporter a
majority if not all of the committee were of opinion that the labors
of the Convention would have terminated by the fifteenth day of
March last, and this opinion it is believed was generally if not
universally acquiesced in by the Convention itself. The only
depart the which is brought to the notice of the committee from
the terms of the original contract has occurred in some reports of
speeches by the members themselves which extended beyond the
‘sketches of debates," as expressed in the terms of the contract
whereby the extent and expense of said debates have been great
ly increased, but this departure has been acquiesced in by the Con-