State, and that since the adoption of the pres-
ent constitution, I have not in any manner
violated the provisions thereof in relation to
bribery of voters or preventing legal or po-
curing illegal votes to begiven; (and if a
governor, senator, member of the house of
delegates or judge,) that I will not directly
or indirectly receive the profits or any part of
the profits of any other office during the time
of my acting as—. And if any person
elected or appointed to office as aforesaid,
shall refuse or neglect to take the said oath
or affirmation, he shall be considered as
having refused to accept the said office,
and a new election or appointment shall
be made as in case of refusal or resigna-
tion, and any person swearing or affirming
falsely in the premises, shall, on conviction
thereof in a court of law incur the penalties
for wilful and corrupt perjury, and be there-
after incapable of voting at any election, and
also incapable of holding any office of profit
or trust in this State.
Sec. 5. No person who is lunatic, non
compos mentis, or under guardianship, shall
be allowed to vote; nor shall any one con-
victed of bribery, or other infamous crime
that consigns him to the penitentiary, until
two years after he shall have paid the pen-
alty of his offence, unless pardoned by the
governor.
Sec. 6. No person in the military or
naval service of the United States shall be
considered as having acquired a residence to
vote because he has been employed at any
barracks, forts, or naval station in this State,
and no citizen shall be deemed to have lost
his residence by reason of his absence while
employed in the service of this State or the
United States, or while engaged in navigat-
ing the waters thereof, or the high seas, or
while confined as a public prisoner.
JOHN BROWN,
FENDALL MARBURY.
Mr. SCOTT gave notice that he would at
the proper time submit the following amend-
ment to the fifth section of the report of the
committee on the elective franchise :
"That I will be faithful and support the
constitution and laws of Maryland, and that
will to the best of my skill and judgment, dili
gently and faithfully, without partiality or
that since the adoption of the present con
stitution I have not in any manner violated
the provisions thereof in relation to bribery
of voters, or preventing legal or procuring
illegal votes to be given, (and if a governor
senator, member of the house of delegates or
judge,) that I will not directly or indirectly
receive the profits or any part of the profit
of any other office during the time of my
acting as —, and that I owe paramount
allegiance to the constitution and govern
ment of the United States, any law or or-
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dinance of the general assembly or State
convention of Maryland to the contrary not-withstanding;
that I will defend the said
constitution and government of the United
States to the last extremity, against every
enemy, and that since the commencement of
the civil war and rebellion, I have never in
any manner either directly or indirectly by
word or deed given aid or encouragement to
those in rebellion against the United States
that I have never sympathized with them, nor
desired, their success, but have uniformly
land at all times denounced them not only as
rebels against and traitors to their country
but as enemies of the human race."
SCHOOL TAX.
The convention proceeded to the consider-
ation of the unfinished business of yesterday
being the second reading of the article report-
ed by the committee on education.
The sixth section was read as amended as
follows:
Section 6. The general assembly shall levy
at each regular session after the adoption of
this constitution, an annual tax of not less
than ten cents on each one hundred dollars
of taxable property throughout the State for
the support of the free public schools, which
tax shall be collected at the same time and
by the same agents as the general State levy
and shall be paid into the treasury of the
State, and shall be distributed under such
regulations as may be prescribed by law,
among the counties and the city of Baltimore,
in proportion to their respective population
between the ages of five and twenty years •
Provided, that the general assembly shall not
levy any additional school tax upon particu-
lar counties, unless such county express by
popular vote its desire for such tax; the city
of Baltimore shall provide for its additional
school tax as at present, or as may hereafter
be provided by the general assembly, or the
mayor and city council of Baltimore.
Mr. MILLER submitted the following amend-
ment :
Section 6. After the word "tax," in the
twelfth line, insert "and provided further,
that the taxes now levied for the support of
public schools in the several counties of this
State shall be discontinued on and after the
first day of January, 1866.' '
Mr. MILLER said: I offer that amendment
- because I find this proviso in the bill as re
i ported authorizing the levy of this tax of ten
cents on the $100:
; "Provided, that the genera] assembly shall
not levy any additional school tax upon par
r ticular counties, unless such county express
y by popular vote its desire for such tax."
s That will replace the district tax for the
y support of the schools authorized by the code
t to be levied by the county commissioners of
- the several counties of the State
The argument was made by the gentleman |
