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Which was read the first time.

Mr, Brown gave notice that he would submit a minority
report.

Mr. Scott gave notice that at the proper time he would sub-
mit the following amendment to the first section:

'All elections shall be by ballot, and every white male citi-
zen of the United States of the age of twenty one years or
upwards, who shall have resided in the State one year next
preceding the election, and six months in the city of Balti-
more or in any county, shall be entitled to be registered as a
legal voter; and such registration together with the muster
rolls of all such soldiers as may be entitled to registration in
the State, shall be held and taken as the only evidence of
qualification to vote at any election hereafter, and the Gen-
eral Assembly shall by law provide for the registration of
voters, and for holding elections for receiving the votes of
soldiers in the army of the United States; provided, that no
person who has been in armed rebellion against the United
States, or who has given aid and comfort to those thus in re-
bellion against the lawful authority thereof by enlisting men
for the Rebel Army, or by sending arms, munitions of war,
money, vessels, clothing, provisions or goods of any kind;
or letters or papers, or any written or printed matter, into
the rebel lines for the use or benefit of those thus in armed
rebellion against the United States, shall ever be registered
among the legal voters of the State, but shall be forever dis-
qualified from voting and from holding any office of honor,
trust or profit in the State. "

Mr. Earle, from the Committee on Engrossment and Revi-
sion submitted the following

REPORT:

The Committee on Engrossment and Revision report, that
that they have examined the engrossed copy of the Declara-
tion of Rights,

The word "at" should be inserted after the word "and"
in the first line of the 30th Article.

And the word "persons, " in the thirteenth line of the
36th Article should be "person. "

The Committee recommend that the 46th Article be united
with the 40th Article.

The 40th Article would then read, "that the liberty of the
press ought to be inviolably preserved, and every citizen