Mr. Smith, offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Treasurer be requested to furnish this Con-
vention, at as early a time as practicable, the amount of Free
School Fund annually distributed to each county of the State,
the amount of the Common School Fund to each county; and,
also, the amount annually paid to each academy and college;
Which was twice read and adopted.
Mr. Sprigg, submitted the following resolution
Resolved, That the Governor of Maryland be respectfully re-
quested to furnish to this Convention a true copy of the certi-
fied returns made to the State Department, by the clerks of the
several counties of this State, and of the city of Baltimore, as
directed by the 2nd section of the act entitled, "An act to provide
for taking the sense of the people upon the expediency of calling
a Convention to frame a new constitution and form of government
for this State, and to provide for the election of delegates to such
Convention," passed at December session 1849.
Which was twice read and adopted.
Mr. Ridgely, submitted the following resolution
Resolved, That itbe referred to the committee on the Judiciary,
to enquire into the propriety, in the arrangement of Judicial dis-
tricts, to separate all that part of Baltimore county, not included
within the limits of the city of Baltimore, from the said city of
Baltimore, and to erect said county into a distinctive Judicial dis-
trict, with one or more adjoining counties, and that for the purpose
of fixing permanently the seat of justice of Baltimore county
thereafter, to provide that an election be holden throughout the
county by the qualified voters at large, without reference to districts,
on the day set apart by the constitution for the first election of
delegates to the General Assembly, which election shall be con-
ducted in all respects according to the existing laws relating to
elections; at which time, the qualified voters shall vote for such
place as they may see proper for the seat of justice. The returns
of said election to be transmitted to the county commissioners of
said county within three days thereafter; if either place voted for,
shall have a majority of the whole number of votes cast, then the
same shall be the permanent seat of justice of said county; but in
case neither place voted for shall have a majority of the whole
number of votes given, then the commissioners of said county
shall cause twenty days notice, exclusive of the day on which said
notice is issued and the day of election, for an election to be held in
the same manner, between the two places having the highest
number of votes at the first election. The election to be conduct-
ed in the same manner as at the first, and the returns to be made
in likewise to the county commissioners, and the place having the
highest number of votes, cast at said last election, shall be the
county seat.
Which was twice read and adopted.
Mr. Johnson, submitted the following order:
Ordered, That the committee on the basis of Representation