The select committee apointed to consider
and report respecting the formation of New
Counties in this State, beg leave to make the
following report, and recommend its adoption
as an article of the constitution about to be form-
ed:
THOS. B. DORSEY, Chairman.
Article. That part of Anne Arundel county
called Howard District, is hereby erected into a
new county to be called Howard county; the inhabitants
whereof shall have, hold and enjoy all
such rights and privileges as are held and enjoy-
ed by the inhabitants of the other counties in
this State : and its civil and municipal officers
at the time of the ratification of this constitution
shall continue in office until their successors
shall have been elected or appointed, and shall
have qualified as such; and all rights, powers and
obligations incident to Howard District of Anne
Arundel county, shall attach to Howard county.
The question was then stated to be on the adop-
tion of the report.
Mr. WARE said, that before the question was
taken he should like to know the census of Anne
Arundel county proper, and Howard District.
Mr. DORSEY said, he had not the census before
him; but he understood upon good authority, that
the population of the district was some twelve or
thirteen thousand.
The question was then taken and the report
was adopted.
BASIS OF REPRESENTATION.
Mr. SPENCER moved that the Convention re-
sume the consideration of the unfinished business
of the morning hour—which motion was agreed
to.
The Convention thereupon resumed the con-
sideration of the motion submitted yesterday by
Mr, LLOYD, making the several reports from the
committee en representation the special order of
the day for Tuesday next.
Mr. GWINN asked the yeas and nays, which
were ordered.
Mr. WELLS, (to the Chair.) Is it in order to
.move another day ?
The PRESIDENT. It is in order to move any
other day that has not yet been named,
Mr, WELLS. I move Wednesday week.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
Mr. PRESSTMAN said, he did not see the neces-
sity of being pertinacious as to a particular day,
or of taking the yeas and nays on each day
named. The Convention could designate some
day most acceptable to it, without the delay con-
sequent upon this process.
Mr. SOLLERS, (to the Chair.) Is an amendment
in order? I wish to move an indefinite post-
ponement.
The PRESIDENT. A motion to postpone inde-
finitely is not in order at this time. The proposi-
tion is to fix a day certain for the consideration
of the question.
Mr. SAPPINGTON addressed the Chair.
The PRESIDENT now stated that the pending
question was not debateable, and the Chair would
not entertain discussion. |
Mr. HOPEWELL. Is it in order to move to lay
the motion on the table ?
The PRESIDENT. The motion is in order.
Mr. HOPEWELL. I make it.
The question was taken, and the Convention
decided that the motion should not be laid on
the table.
The question then recurred on the motion of
Mr. WELLS, to designate Wednesday week, and
being taken, resulted as follows :
Affirmative — Messrs. Chapman, President,
Blakistone, Dent, Hopewell, Ricaud, Lee, Chambers,
of Kent, Mitchell, Donaldson, Dorsey,
Wells, Randall, Kent, Sellman, Weems, Dalrym-
ple, Bond, Crisfield, Dashiell, Hicks, Hodson,
Goldsborough, Eccleston, Sprigg, McCubbin,
Bowling, Grason, McMaster, Fooks, Sappington,
Stephenson, McHenry, Thawley, Schley, Fiery,
John Newcomer, Davis and Kilgour—37.
Negative — Messrs. Sollers, Bell, Welch,
Ridgely, Lloyd, Colston, Chambers, of Cecil,
McCullough, Miller, Spencer, George, Thomas,
Shriver, Gaither, Biser, Annan, Magraw, Hard-
castle, Gwinn, Sherwood, of Baltimore city,
Presstman, Ware, Neill, Michael Newcomer,
Weber, Hollyday, Slicer, Parke, Ege, Cockey
and Brown—31.
So the reports from the committee on repre-
sentation was made the special order of the day,
for Wednesday week.
THE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.
The Convention proceeded to the special order
of the day, being the report of the committee on
the legislative department,
The pending question was on the substitute
amendment offered yesterday by Mr. SPENCER
in the following words :
"The Legislature shall not hereafter appropriate
the public money, or pledge the public
faith, or make loans, or subscriptions to any as-
sociation, corporation or work of internal im-
provement; and they shall not use or appropiate
the proceeds of the internal improvement com-
panies, or of the State tax now levied, or which
may hereafter be levied to pay off the public
debt, to any other purpose, until the interest and
debt are fully paid."
Mr. SPENCER moved the question be taken by
yeas and nays.
Mr. SPENCER said, that be had yesterday offer-
ed this as a substitute for the amendment of the
gentleman from Harford, [Mr. McHenry.] He
now withdrew it. He did so in consequence of a
conversation with that gentleman, in which he,
(Mr. McH.,) had agreed to accept the latter part
of the substitute as a modification of his own
proposition.
Mr. MCHENRY accepted this modification.
Mr. CRISFIELD now offered the following
amendment, of which he had yesterday given
notice:
Strike out after the word ''dollars," in the tenth
line, to the word "the," in the thirteenth line,
and insert:
"Nor shall the legislature hereafter create any
debt, or pledge the credit of the State, except for |
