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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1866
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240 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. SO,

Messrs.
Frazier, Speaker,
Bartell,
Barron,
Cairns,
Clift,
Comegys,
Cummings,
Fooks,
Fawcett,
Garrison,
Harris,
Hazen,
Hodson,
Hoffman,
Holloway,
Hopkins,
AFFIRMATIVE.
Jamison,
King',
Kirk,
Lee,
Malone,
Markey,
McCauley,
McCullough,
Miller, of A. A.,
Nairne,
Norris,
Parker,
Pennington,
Poteet,
Rider,
Rinehart,
Shaw,
Smith, of Alleg'y.
Smith, of Dorch.,
Soper,
Stewart,
Stone,
Tolson,
Tull,
Usilton.
Wardwell,
Warner.
Watkins,
Williams,
Willis,
Wilson,
Wooden,
Zeigler—49.

Messrs.
Angel, »
Buhrman
Dean,
NEATIVE.
Everhart,
Leaverton,
Miller, of Wash.,
Pilkington,
Sherry,
Smith, of F'k—9.

 
The question upon the motion was decided in the af-
firmative.
REPORT:
The undersigned, a minority of the committee on Registra"
tion, to which was referred sundry memorials asking the re"
moval of the constitutional disabilities in relation to the
elective franchise, beg leave to dissent from the position as-
sumed by the majority, and to urge upon the House the
necessity of 'fifing such action as will speedily remove the
disqualifications under which a large majority of our people
are laboring. The disqualifying provisions of our constitu-
tion, if imposed upon the people as punishments, would even
under the decision of our Court of Appeals, be clearly illegal
and void. Believing, as we do, that the deprivation of the
right of suffrage is the severest punishment that can be in-
flicted upon the citizen, and that the visiting of such a pen-
alty for acts done, which were not criminal at the time the
offences were committed, is contrary to the spirit of free in-
stitutions, and repugnant to the Bill of Eights of Maryland,
and the constitution of the United States; therefore, in our
opinion, those provisions "in order to have the least shadow
of validity, must be regarded as preventive in their operation

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