respects, the requisite qualifications of a dele-
gate-and the residence by the district requisite
to give a right of suffrage of voting for delegates
shall be six months next preceding the election;
but in case any voter otherwise qualified shall
have resided less than six months in the district
of his then residence, he shall not thereby wholly
lose his right to vote for a delegate at the then
pending election, but shall be entitled to cast his
vote for a delegate in the district in which he
may have resided for the six months next prece-
ding his removal to the district of his existing
residence, and the Legislature may pass all laws
necessary to carry into the effect this article of
the Constitution.
Art. 3nd. Of the eighty-three members con-
stituting the House of Delegates, Allegany coun-
ty shall elect four, Anne Arundel county four,
Baltimore city ten, Baltimore county six, Carroll
county four, Caroline county two, Calvert coun-
ty two, Cecil county three, Charles county three,
Dorchester county three, Frederick county six,
Harford county three, Howard county three,
Kent county two, Montgomery county three,
Prince George's county four, Queen Anne's
county three, St. Mary's county three, Somer-
set county four, Talbot county three, Washing-
ton county five, Worcester county three.
CORRECTION.
Mr. SPENCER made the following explanantion:
On page two hundred and fourteen, third col-
umn, number twenty-nine of the Register of De-
bates, at the end of the report on the Executive,
made by Mr. GRASON, will be found the follow-
ing:
"Mr. SPRIGG offered a substitute for the re-
port of the gentleman from Queen Anne's, (Mr.
Grason,) which substitute was read as follows:"
He, (Mr. SPENCER,) was then in the Chair,
and it should read,
Mr. MERRICK asked for the reading of the re-
port of Mr. SPRIGG, which was offered as a sub-
stitute for the report of the gentleman from
Queen Anne's (Mr. Grason.)
The CHAIR decided, that the report of Mr,
GRASON was then under consideration; that the
report by Mr. SPRIGG, being a minority report,
was received, ex gratia, by the body, and that it
could not now be considered except as a substi-
tute for the report of Mr. GRASON, and that a
motion to receive it as a substitute, was not then
in order; that the Convention must proceed with
the report under consideration; that its friends
had a right to have it considered, article by ar-
ticle, and amended to suit their wishes; that be-
ing done, it would be in order to move the mi-
nority report of Mr. SPRIGG as a substitute.
Mr. MERRICK then asked the unanimous con-
sent of the Convention, to have the report of Mr.
SPRIGG read, which was given, and the report was read.
The Convention after which adjourned until to-morrow
at ten o'clock. |
THURSDAY, March 27th, 1851.
The Convention met at ten o'clock.
Prayer was made by the Rev. Mr. GRAUFF.
The roll of the members was called, and the
journal of yesterday was read and approved.
REPORTS OF DEBATES.
The PRESIDENT laid before the Convention the
following communication from Henry G. Wheel-
er, Esq., Reporter to the Convention.
ANNAPOLIS March 26, 1851.
To the PRESIDENT of the Convention:
SIR:—I have the honor to request that you
will lay before the Convention the following
statement:
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
HENRY G. WHEELER,
Reporter to the Convention.
The undersigned feels it due to the Convention
and to himself, to submit the following brief
statement of the condition of the fund appropri-
ated for the reporting of the debates.
The amount appropriated for that object was
four thousand dollars. The sum already drawn
from the fund together with that due for debates
not yet published, may be estimated at upwards
of three thousand dollars. By the 5th of April,
the appropriation will be nearly or quite ex-
hausted.
Carrying out what he has assumed to be the
general desire of the Convention, that the senti-
ments of members on the topics of Representa-
tion and the judiciary system should be present-
ed fully to the people, the undersigned provided
himself some time since with the force requisite
for that object.
When in January last, the undersigned enter-
ed upon the existing contract for "sketches of
debates " it was his expectation, as it was un-
derstood to be, that of the Convention general-
ly, that its labors would terminate by the fif-
teenth of March. That period has passed, and
the termination of the session is still a matter of
doubt.
In the performance of his contract, under
many disadvantages, the undersigned feels that
he has discharged his obligations faithfully— and
he believes, generally speaking with satisfaction.
The reports have been circulated throughout
the State, and the public eye has been enabled
to follow every movement of the Convention.
The debates have never been allowed to accu-
mulate forty-eight hours on the hands of the Re-
porter, and are now written up to Tuesday,
March 24th.
As the time approaches when the appropria-
tion will yield no further means, it will become
necessary for the Convention to decide whether
the present system of reporting, shall be arrested
when the fund is exhausted.
But the undersigned desires it to be under-
stood, that in no event will he desert his post.
Although be may be compelled to remain in the
Convention alone, he will be found here in the
daily discharge of his duties as faithfully as mere
individual effort can discharge them. And he |
