499

Davis, of Charles, Mace, Thomas,

Dennis, Marbury, Todd,

Edelen, Markey, Turner,

Gale, Mitchell, Wooden—38.

So the question upon its adoption was decided in the
negative.

Mr. Scott was excused from attending the sessions of the
Convention for the remainder of the week, and Messrs. Mc-
Comas and Mayhugh were excused from attending the session
this evening.

On motion of Mr. Annan,

It was ordered to be entered on the Journal that Henry
Baker is absent from his seat on account of sickness.

Mr. Jon. es, of Somerset, gave notice that at the proper time
he would submit the following amendments to the report of
the Committee on Elective Franchise:

To amend the amendment of Mr. Scott, on the 434th page
of the Journal, by adding at the end thereof the following:

"And that I have never in any manner, either directly or
indirectly, by word or deed, violated any article of the Consti-
tution and Laws of the United States, or of the State of Mary-
laud, or of the ten commandments, usually called 'the moral
law, ' as contained in the twentieth chapter of the Book of
Exodus; that I have never aided, abetted, encouraged, or
apologised for those Abolitionists in the so-called free States,
who by carefully prepared acts of their State Legislatures,
obstructed and effectually nullified, within such States, the
Constitution and Laws of the United States, in relation to the
rendition of fugitives from service to their owners, whereby
the said owners have been compelled to abandon their proper-
ty and constitutional rights, or risk heavy losses by enormous
fines, or their liberty by long imprisonment, or their lives by
abolition mobs; but that I have uniformly and at all times,
denounced them not only as covenant-breakers and traitors to
their country, but as enemies of the human race. "

To amend Mr. Stirling's amendment on page 435, of Jour-
nal, by striking out all after the word "abilities, " in the
tenth line from the top of said page, and insert:

"Faithfully endeavor to restore to the Union, under the
Constitution of the United States the States now calling them-
selves the 'Confederate States of America, ' with their Consti-
tutions and Laws, customs, habits and institutions, as they
existed on the first day of December 1860, and that I will at