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EVENING SESSION.

The Convention met at 8 o'clock, P. M.

All the members present except the following:

Messrs. Barron, Berry, of Baltimore county, Berry,
of Prince George's, Billingsley, Blackiston, Bond, Briscoe.
Brooks, Brown, Carter, Chambers, Crawford, Cushing, Dail,
Davis, of Charles, Dennis, Dent, Edelen, Gale, Hatch,
Hodson, Hoffman, Horsey, Johnson, Jones, of Cecil, Jones,
of Somerset, Kennard, Larsh, Mace, McComas, Mitchell,
Morgan, Mullikin, Noble, Sands, Schlosser, Smith, of Dor-
chester, Swope, Sykes, Thomas, Thruston, Turner, Valliant,
Wickard, Wilmer, Wooden—46.

The Convention resumed the consideration of the Report
of the Committee on the Legislative Department;

The question being on sustaining the Chair, in his decision
upon the amendment of Mr. Hebb;

On motion of Mr. Abbott,
The appeal was laid on the table.

The question recurring upon the adoption of the amend-
ment submitted by Mr. Hebb,

It was decided in the negative.

Mr. Ridgely submitted the following amendment:

In the third line, after the word '^interest, " insert the
words "as stockholder and creditors; "

Decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Clark submitted the following amendment to the Re-
port of the Committee on the Legislative Department:

Insert as an additional section the following:

Sec. —. The Legislature at its first session after the adop-
tion of this Constitution shall provide a mode by which those
persons who were owners of slaves under the laws of this
State, on the 1st day of January, 1861, or at the time of the
adoption of this Constitution,, or during the intervening pe-
riod, may perpetuate the evidence of the number, names,
ages and sex of the slaves so owned by them respectively,
and by which those persons who have sustained losses of pro-
perty by reason of the invasion of the State by the public