Mr. DORSEY moved to amend said order by
striking out "ten," and inserting "nine," and by
striking out "four," and inserting "three."
Mr. STEPHENSON moved to lay the order and
amendment on the table.
Determined in the negative.
The question then recurred upon the adoption
of the amendment as offered by Mr. DORSEY.
Mr. RICAUD accepted said amendment.
The question then recurred upon the adoption
of the resolution as amended.
Mr. BROWN moved further to amend said re-
solution, by striking out these words, "until four
o'clock, p. m."
Determined in the affirmative.
Mr. BLAKISTONE moved to amend said resolu-
tion by adding at the end thereof, "until two o'-
clock, p. m.. then take a recess until four o'clock.
p. m.. when it will again meet for the transac-
tion of business."
Mr. SHRIVER moved to amend said amendment
by adding the following :
"And sit until ten o'clock at night."
Determined in the negative.
The question then recurred on the adoption
the amendment as offered by Mr. BLAKISTONE.
Mr, MAGRAW moved to lay said resolution and
amendment on the table,
Mr. MAGRAW moved the question be taken by
yeas and nays,
And being ordered,
Appeared as follows:
Affirmative—Messrs. Blakistone, Sellman, How-
ard, Sherwood, of Talbot, Colston, John Dennis,
Hudson, Eccleston, McCullough, Tuck,
George, Annan, Stephenson, McHenry, Magraw,
Nelson. Carter, Stewart of Caroline, Schley,
Fiery, Neill, John Newcomer, Michael New-
comer Weber, Smith and Shower—36.
Negative—Messrs. Chapman, President, Hope-
well, Ricaud, Mitchell, Donaldson, Dorsey,
Randall, Ridgely, Welch, James U. Dennis,
Dashiell, Williams, Hicks, Phelps, Bowie, Sprigg,
Dirickson, McMaster. Hearn, Shriver, Biser,
Thawley, Brent of Baltimore city, Sherwood of
Baltimore city, Ware, Davis, Kilgour, Waters,
Anderson, Slicer, Fitzpatrick, Cockey and
Brown—33.
So the Convention refused to lay the resolution
and amendment on the table.
The question then recurred on the adoption of
the amendment as offered by Mr. BLAKISTONE,
Mr. MICHAEL NEWCOMER moved that the ques-
tion be taken by yeas and nays,
Which motion was not sustained.
Mr. BLAKISTONE renewed the motion that the
question be taken by yeas and nays,
And being ordered,
Appeared as follows:
Affirmative.— Messrs. Blakistone, Sellman, How-
ard, Sherwood of Talbot Colston, John Dennis,
Eccleston, McCullough, Tuck. George, McMaster,
Annan, Stephenson, McHenry, Magraw,
Nelson, Carter, Thawley, Stewart, of Caroline,
Schley, Fiery, John Newcomer, Michael New-
comer, Weber, Slicer. Smith and Cockey—27.
Negative.—Messrs. Chapman, President, Hope- |
well, Ricaud, Mitchell, Donaldson, Dorsey,
Randall, Welch, Ridgely, James U. Dennis,
Dashiell, Williams, Hicks, Hodson, Phelps,
Bowie, Sprigg, Dirickson. Hearn, Shriver, Biser,
Brent, of Baltimore city, Sherwood, of Baltimore
city, Ware, Neill, Davis, Kilgour, Waters, An-
derson, Fitzpatrick, Shower and Brown—31.
So the amendment was rejected.
The question then recurred and was put on the
adoption of the order, and
Determined in the affirmative.
And then the Convention adjourned until to-
morrow morning at nine o'clock,
FRIDAY, April 11,1851.
The Convention, pursuant to its order of yes-
terday, met this day at nine o'clock.
The rolled was called.
The President explained that a mistake had
taken place in the announcement of the result of
the vote of yesterday, on the adjournment.
The journal of yesterday was read.
On motion of
Mr. WELCH, it was
Ordered, that it be entered on the journal that
Mr. CHANDLER is detain from his seat in the
Convention, by indisposition.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
The Convention then resumed the consideration
of the unfinished business of yesterday, be-
ing the report heretofore submitted by Mr. SOLLERS,
on the 3d instant, as chairman of the com-
mittee on the amendments and revisions of the
Constitution.
The question pending at the adjournment on
yesterday, being the following amendment of-
fered by Mr. BROWN, to the substitute of Mr.
FITZPATRICK, for the report of Mr. SOLLERS.
And at the end of the said substitute, the
following:
"The members of which Convention shall be
elected by the city of Baltimore, and the coun-
ties of the State, in proportion to their respec-
tive representation in the House of Delegates
and Senate of Maryland, at the time said Convention
shall be called."
Mr. THOMAS resumed his observations from
yesterday, by saying, he remarked that when he
addressed the Convention yesterday, he felt as
if the remark made by the gentleman from
Prince Georges, [Mr. Bowie,] ought to he re-
sponded to from some quarter, because he had
attached, and did now attach, a good deal of importance
to the adoption of some proposition to
provide for taking the sense of the people for
and against a Convention. He had thought he
would respond to it at the time, lest it might be
supposed that the attempt to take the sense of
the people in some form, had been given up.—
He said yesterday there were some distinctions
between the two propositions which led him to |
