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Sec. — "The Legislature at its first session after the adoption
of this Constitution shall provide a mode by which those persons
who were owners of slaves under the laws of this State on the
first day of January 1861, or at the time of the adoption of
this Constitution, or during the intervening period may per-
petuate the evidence of the number, names, ages and sex of
the slaves so owned by them respectively, '
The question being on its adoption,
Mr. Barron called the previous question;
The question being,
"Shall the main question be now put P"
It was decided in the affirmative.
The question then recurring upon the adoption of the
amendment as submitted by Mr. Clarke,
Mr. Clarke demanded the yeas and nays.
The demand being sustained,
The yeas and nays were called, and appeared as follows:
AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs. Duvall, Miller,
Belt, Edelen, Morgan,
Berry, of P. Gr. Harwood, Parker,
Blackiston, Hollyday, Parran,
Bond, Horsey, Peter,
Briscoe, Jones, of Som. Ridgely,
Brown, King, Smith, of Dor.,
Chambers, - Lansdale, Stockbridge,
Clarke, Larsh, Thomas,
Dail, Lee, Todd,
Davis, of Charles, Marbury, Wilmer—34.
Dent, Mitchell,
NEGATIVE.
Messrs. Galloway, Negley,
Goldsborough, P't Hatch, Nyman,
Abbott, Hebb, Pugh,
Annan, Hopkins, Purnell,
Audoun, Hopper, Russell,
Barron, Jones, of Cecil, Sands,
Cunningham, Kennard, Sneary,
Daniel, Markey, Stirling,
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