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"It shall be the duty of the Legislature at its first
session after the adoption of this Constitution, to provide by
law for the sale to the highest bidder of all or such part of
the stock owned by this State in any Rail Road or Canal
Company, and of the debt due to this State by any Rail Road
or Canal Company as can be sold or exchanged for not less
than an equal amount of the present public or stock debt of
this State, and to convey the interest so sold to the purchaser
or purchasers thereof, and so to proceed from time to time
until all such interest of the State in every such corporation
shall be wholly sold and disposed of; provided that the in-
terest of the State in the Washington Branch of the Balti-
more and Ohio Rail Road be reserved and exempted from such
sale. "
The question being on the adoption of the amendment to
the amendment,
Mr. Audoun demanded the yeas and nays;
The demand being sustained,
The yeas and nays were called, and appeared as follows:
AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs. Edelen, Morgan,
Belt, Greene, Parran,
Chambers, Hollyday, Schley,
Cushing, Lee, Stirling,
Dent, Mitchell, Wilmer—15.
Duvall,
NEGATIVE. '
Messrs. Hebb, Pugh)
Goldsborough, P't Hoffman, Ridgely,
Abbott, Hopkins, Russell,
Annan, Hopper, Smith, of Carroll,
Audoun, King, Smith of Dor.,
Brooks, Markey, Sneary,
Carter, McComas., Stockbridge,
Dail,. Miller, Swope,
Daniel, Mullikin, Sykes,
Davis, of Wash., Murray, Todd,
Earle, Negley, Valliant,
Ecker, Nyman, Wickard,
Farrow, Parker, Wooden—38.
So the question upon its adoption was decided in the
negative.
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