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DELEGATE E. CLARKE: Would Dele-
gate Bryson and Delegate J. Frank Raley
please escort the Sergeant-at-Arms to the
rostrum, please?
Come forward, please.
(The Honorable Mary B. Bryson, Dele-
gate from Carroll County, and the Honor-
able J. Frank Raley, Jr., Delegate from
St. Mary's County, escorted the Sergeant-
at-Arms, who carried the duplicate orig-
inal mace, to the rostrum.)
(The delegates rose and applauded.)
DELEGATE E. CLARKE: Honorary
Vice-President Tawes, Vice-President
James Clark, Vice - President William
James, and ladies and gentlemen of this
Convention, honored guests and friends:
The opportunity that has been afforded me
to make this presentation as a part of the
final session of the "Annapolis Achieve-
ment" is truly the greatest honor of my
lifetime.
The base of the mace is a silver collar.
Inscribed on the collar are the following
words: "Presented to H. Vernon Eney,
President of the Constitutional Convention
of 1967, by the delegates and officers of the
Convention with their respect and affection."
Inscribed thereon are the names of the
delegates, the officers, and the chief of
pages.
Mr. President, accept this mace with the
knowledge that Marylanders are deeply
grateful to you, and please accept our best
wishes at this time. And may God be with
you always.
(The Delegates to the Maryland Consti-
tutional Convention, the officers, the staff,
the press, and the visitors rose and ap-
plauded.)
PRESIDENT ENEY: There are times
when one wishes so much that he had the
eloquence and the power of expression and
the ability to put in words the thoughts
that go racing through his mind. I do not
have that ability.
It is utterly impossible for me to express
to you in words what that mace and in-
scription with all the signatures on it
mean to me. You will simply have to read
my mind and be satisfied with a simple but
very, very heartfelt thank you.
Thank you very much.
(The delegates rose and applauded.)
HONORARY PRESIDENT TAWES:
The Chair now recognizes Delegate E. J.
Clarke for the purpose of making a motion.
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DELEGATE E. CLARKE: Will Dele-
gate Cardin please approach the reading
clerk's desk?
Mr. Honorary President, Delegate Cardin
will offer Resolution No. 62. In order to do
this, we must have a suspension of the
rules.
I move that all interfering rules be sus-
pended so that the resolution may be in-
troduced.
HONORARY PRESIDENT TAWES:
Delegate E. J. Clarke moves the suspension
of all interfering rules for the purpose of
introducing Resolution No. 62.
(Whereupon, the motion was duly sec-
onded.)
HONORARY PRESIDENT TAWES:
All those in favor, signify by saying Aye;
opposed, No.
Does that require a roll call vote?
I am advised by the specialists in this
department it does require a roll call vote.
Will you cast your votes, please?
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being a unanimous decision, I
yield now to Delegate Clarke.
DELEGATE E. CLARKE: Delegate Car-
din, will you please read the resolution?
DELEGATE CARDIN: Resolution No.
62, by Delegates Tawes, J. Clark, E. J.
Clarke, and all the delegates :
A RESOLUTION expressing the affec-
tion and respect of all of the Delegates to
this Convention for its President, the Hon-
orable H. Vernon Eney.
WHEREAS, the Constitutional Conven-
tion of Maryland is nearing the completion
of the work entrusted to it by the people of
Maryland; and
WHEREAS, it is the deep conviction of
this Convention that no man could have
served his State more ably and more faith-
fully than has the President of the Conven-
tion, through the preparatory effort and
through these months of the Convention's
deliberations, and that without him the
quality of its work and the character of its
deliberations would have been materially
lessened; and
WHEREAS, it was the privilege and
pleasure of each delegate to have shared
with our President the friendship of people
of knowledge, ability and personal charm,
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