535

The question then recurred on the adoption of the report.

Mr. Blakistone, offered as a substitute for said report, the fol.
lowing:
That it shall be the right and privilege of the people of this State
at any general election of Delegates to vote for or against a con
vention, and if it shall appear that a majority of the whole num
ber of legal voters are in favor of the calling of a Convention, the
said majority to be ascertained by the largest popular vote taken in
the preceding election of President of the United States, the elec
tion of Governor, or the general election of Delegates to the Gene
ral Assembly, respectively, at which the Jargest popular vote may
have been cast. Each county and the city of Baltimore to have
a representation equal to the representation to which the same
may be entitled in the Senate and House of Delegates at that
time. That it it shall be the duty of the judges of election in
the several counties and city of Baltimore, to wake returns thereof
to the clerks of the several counties and city of Baltimore, whose
duty it shall be to make return thereof to the Governcr, who, upon
casting up said votes, if he shall find that a majority of the whole
number of legal voteis, as above specified, are in favor of a con
vention,sball issue his proclamation proclaiming such fact. And
issue a proclamation for an election of delegates to said conven
tion in conformity to the previous provisions of this article. That
such election shall take place on the same day on which elections
are held for the election of delegates, but on the intermediate year,
so that the session of theconvention and meeting of the legislature
may not happen at the same time. That the period of the meet
ing of such convention shall be the first Monday of January next
succeeding the election of delegates to said convention. That the
convention shall meet in the Hall of the House of Delegates.
That the members shall be entitled to a per diem of four dollars,
and the itinerancy of members of the Legislature. That they
shall elect a President and such other officers as they may see fit,
and fix their compensation, and adopt such rules and regulations
for their government as may to them seem proper. And that it
shall be the duty of the Legislature to make such provision as
may be necessary to defray the expenses of such convention.

Which was read.

Mr. Brown, rose to the following paint of order:

That the Convention having accepted the substitute as amended
in place of the report submitted by Mr. Sollers, as chairman of the
committee, it was not competent to offer a substitute fur the substi
tute just adopted;

The Chair ruled the substitute to be out of order.

From which decision Mr. Blakistone, appealed, and afterwards
withdrew said appeal.

The question then recurred upon the adoption of the report;