commissioners shall provide for any vacancies hnppening in their
respective counties between regular periods of election as aforesaid;"
Which was read.
Mr. Brent of Balt city, moved for a division of the question on
said amendment, being in these words: "One wreck-master for
Worcester county;"
Determined in the affirmative.
The question was then put on the 2nd and last branch of said
amendment; and
Determined in the affirmative.
The 4th section of said report was then read,
On motion of Mr. Constable,
Said section was amended by inserting after the word "counties,"
in the 4th line, these words "on the first Wednesday of November
1851, and on the same day in every second year for ever thereafter;"
The question then recurred on the adoption of the section as
amended;
Mr. McHenry, offered as a substitute for said section the first
three sections of the report submitted by him on the 8th inst; and
to be found on page 748 of Journal.
Which was read.
On motion of Mr. Wells,
The Convention postponed the further consideration of said
report for the purpose of enabling him to make sundry reports
from the committe on Accounts.
Mr. Wells, chairman of the committee on Accounts, submitted
the following resolution
The undersigned report that they have examined sundry ac-
counts for making and lithographing Map and for Newspapers,
&c., amounting to sixteen hundred and fifty-six dollars and thirty-
four cents, (1656 34,) which were referred to the committee by
several orders of the Convention, and recommend the adoption of
the following resolution
G. WELLS,
W. WILLIAMS,
EDWD. LLOYD,
ALEX. NEILL, JR.,
ELIAS WARE, JR.,
Committee on Accounts.
Resolved, That the accompanying claims amounting to
$1656 34, the vouchers for which are herewith filed, be paid by
the orders of the President of the Convention on the Treasurer of
the State, in favor of the persons entitled to the same.
Which was read and adopted.
Mr. Wells, chairman of the committee on Accounts, to which
were referred sundry accounts from clerks of courts and commis-
sioners of tax, amounting to $490, stated that the committee had had