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Said amendment was amended by adding at the end thereor
the following proviso

"Provided nothing herein contained shall be construed to alter,
change or amend in any manner the article already adopted in re
lation to Banks."

The question then recurred on the adoption of the amendment
as amended; and

Determined in the affirmative.

On motion of Mr. Stephenson,
Said report of the committee was further amended by adding
at the end thereof as an additional section, the following:

"All banks shall be open to inspection of their hooks, papers
and accounts, under such regulations as may be prescribed by
law."

On motion of Mr. Miller,
Said report of the committee was further amended by adding at
the end thereof as an additional section, the following:

"The Legislature shall enact no law authorising private property
to be taken for public use, without just compensation being first
paid or tendered to the party entitled to such compensation.

Mr. Brent of Balt. city, moved the Convention reconsider their
vote rejecting the last branch of the amendment as offered by Mr.
Sollers, in relation to banks;

Determined in the affirmative.

Mr. Brent of Balt, city, then offered as a substitute for said
amendment the following:

"And if any director or other officer shall be convicted upon
indictment of directly or indirectly violating this article, he shall
he punished by fine or imprisonment at the discretion of the
court;"

On the question being put,
"Will the Convention accept the substitute?" it wag
Determined in the afiirmative.

The question then recurred on the adoption of the amendment;
Mr. Weems, moved the question be taken by yeas and nays,
and being ordered appeared as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE—Messrs. Blakistone, Prest., pro tem., Morgan,
Hopewell, Lee, Dalrymple, Bond, Sollers, Howard, Buchanan, Bell,
Sherwood, of Talbot, John Dennis, James U. Dennis, Dashiell,
Hodson, Phelps, Constable, Miller, McLane, Bowie, McCubbin,
Dirickson, McMaster, Fooks, Jacobs, Thomas, Shriver, Biser,
Annan, Stephenson, McHenry, Nelson, Carter, Thawley, Stewart,
of Caroline, Hardcastle, Gwinn, Brent, of Baltimore city, Sherwood,