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The yeas and nays were called, and appeared as follows:
AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs. Dent, Mitchell,
Berry, of P. Geo., Duvall, Miller,
Blackiston, Edelen, Morgan,
Bond, Hollyday, Parran,
Brown, Horsey, Peter,
Chambers, Jones, of Som. Smith, of Dor.,
Crawford, Lee, Valliant,
Dail, Marbury, Wilmer—24.
Davis, of Charles,
NEGATIVE.
Messrs. Hatch, Pugh,
Goldsborough, P't Hebb, Purnell,
Abbott, Hoffman, Ridgely,
Annan, Hopkins, Russell,
Audoun, Hopper, Sands,
Barron, Jones, of Cecil, Schley,
Carter, Kennard, Sneary,
Cunningham, King, Stirling,
Cushing, Markey, Stockbridge,
Daniel, McComas, Swope,
Davis, of Wash., Mullikin, Sykes,
Earle, Murray, Thomas,
Ecker, Negley, Todd,
Farrow, Nyman, Wooden—43.
Galloway, Parker,
So the question upon its adoption was decided in the
negative.
Mr. Duvall submitted the following amendment as an ad-
ditional section of said report:
Sec. —. The General Assembly shall have power to pass
such laws as are necessary to provide for the distribution of
any appropriation hereafter made by the General Govern-
ment to the State of Maryland, to enable the State to com-
pensate the masters or claimants of slaves emancipated from
servitude by the adoption of this Constitution.
Mr. Jones, of Somerset, submitted the following amend-
ment to said amendment:
Add to proposed section the following: "Or taken away
from their owners under authority of the President of the
United States, whereby their services have been lost to their
said owners. "
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