COMPENSATION or OFFICERS.
Mr. GALLOWAY, from the Committee on
Accounts, submitted the following report :
In compliance with the order of the Con-
vention, the Committee on Accounts respect-
fully report, that after canvassing the various
duties assigned to each, they have allowed to
each officer the following sums, to wit
To William R. Cole, Secretary, five dollars
per diem and mileage.
To John H. Shaw, Assistant Secretary,
five dollars per diem and mileage.
To A. D. Evans, Sergeant-at-Arms, five
dollars per diem and mileage.
To each of the Committee Clerks, five dol-
lars per diem and mileage.
To each of the Post-Masters, five dollars
per diem and mileage.
To each of the Doorkeepers, five dollars
per diem and mileage.
To each of the Folders, five dollars per
.diem and mileage.
To the Chief Page, five dollars per diem
and mileage.
To the Assistant Pages, four dollars per
diem and mileage.
To the Lamp-Lighter, four dollars per
diem.
To each of the Keepers of Committee
Rooms, four dollars per diem.
To Keeper of Water Closets, four dollars
per diem.
The report was read and concurred in.
Mr. HATCH moved that the Convention
adjourn.
The motion was not agreed to.
SPECIAL ELECTIONS.
Mr. SCOTT submitted the following order :
Ordered, That the Committee on Elections
be instructed to consider and report on the
propriety of electing the following officers at
an election specially for that purpose, viz. :
School Commissioners, Justices of the Peace,
Constables and Road Supervisors :
Mr. BARRON. I would prefer that that
subject should be referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
Mr. SCOTT. I have no objection to the
amendment.
Mr. STOCKBRIDGE. It seems tome that that
order as it now stands is somewhat mixed.
Justices of the Peace and Constables are a
part of the judicial system, and School Com-
missioners and Road Supervisors are a very
different thing. While I do not conceive that
Committee on Elections is the proper one,
it occurs to me that the matters belong to two
different committees.
Mr. STIRLING. I do not suppose that the
Committee on Elections has anything to do
with it, and the Committee on the Judiciary
is obnoxious to the objection my colleague
raises, that a portion of the offices do not be-
long to the judicial system.
Mr. PUGH. I have an idea that there may
be some mode adopted by the Committee on |
the Legislative Department which will do
away with our present system of School
Commissioners altogether. I do not know
that that will be done, but. in order to avoid
that difficulty in case it should arise, I move
to strike out the words "School Commis-
sioners."
Mr. SCOTT accepted this amendment also.
The order as amended was adopted.
On motion of Mr. STIRLING,
The Convention adjourned.
ELEVENTH DAY.
THURSDAY, May 12th, 1864.
The Convention met.
Prayer by the Rev., Mr. McNamar.
Present at the call of the roll, the following
members:
Messrs. Goldsborough, (President,) Hebb,
Thruston, Wickard, Robinette, Miller, Har-
wood, Bond, Henkle, Kennard, Brooks,
Stockbridge, Stirling, Barron, Daniel, Ab-
bott, Cushing, Thomas, Berry of Baltimore
county, Ridgely, Hoffman, Parker, King,
Larsh, Ecker, Swope, Wooden, Jones of
Cecil, Earle, Scott, Pugh, Turner, Edelen,
Davis of Charles, Mitchell, Todd, Carter,
Dail, Johnson, Smith of Dorchester, Hodson,
Keefer, Schley, Markey, Annan, Baker, Cun-
ningham, Schlosser, Galloway, McComas,
Hopper, Russell, Hopkins, Sands, Sykes,
Chambers, Blackiston, Hollyday, Lansdale,
Peter, Duvall, Clarke, Marbury, Lee, Brown,
Wilmer, Morgan, Jones of Somerset, Craw-
ford, Gale, Horsey, Valliant, Mullikin, Nyman,
Negley, Mayhugh, Davis of Washington,
Sneary, Smith of Worcester, Purnell, Murray.
The proceedings of yesterday were read.
REVISING CLERK.
Mr. PUGH submitted the following order:
Ordered, That there be appointed by the
President a Revising Clerk, whose duty it
shall be to correct the debates, as directed by
the Speaker, superintend the printing thereof,
index the Journal of Proceedings, the De-
bates and the Constitution, and to perform
such other duties as may be suggested by the
Committee on Reporting and Printing.
The order was referred to the Committee
on Reporting and Printing.
THE JUDICIARY.
On motion of Mr. BOND,
Ordered, That the Committee on the Judi-
ciary be instructed to inquire into the expe-
diency of providing as follows :
1st. That there shall be five Judges of the
Court of Appeals who shall hold office during
life, unless removed for cause, with a salary of
three thousand five hundred dollars per an-
num each.
2d. That there shall be one Judge for
each county, who shall reside at or near the
capital, or county town of his county, who
shall have and exercise all the powers and
jurisdiction in said county of the Circuit |
