CHAPTER 327.

AN ACT to provide for taking the sense of the
people of this State on the call of a Convention
to frame a new Constitution and form of Gov-
ernment, and for assembling the members
thereof.

Passed Mar.
20,1867.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General assem-
bly of Maryland, That on the second Wednesday
of April next, at the same places where county and
city elections are now by law held for the election
of Delegates to the General Assembly, every per-
son entitled to vote for Delegates to the General
Assembly shall vote on the question of a call of a
Convention to frame a new Constitution and form
of Government, with a clause therein prohibiting
the Legislature from making any law providing
for payment by this State for persons heretofore
held as slaves, by expressing in writing or' by
printed form the words "For a Convention" or
"Against a Convention" as the case may be; and
in case there shall be any ballots without the des-
ignation so prescribed, the same shall not be
counted for or against a Convention, but a seperate
return thereof shall be made by the Judges of
Election.

Vote on the
call for a Con-
vention.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That at the said elec-
tion the registered voters of the State shall elect
by ballot delegates to the said Convention, whose
qualifications shall be the same as those now re-
quired for members of the House of Delegates,
and each county and the city of Baltimore shall
be entitled to elect respectively the number of del-
egates to said Convention herein provided, namely:
St. Mary's county, three delegates; Kent county,
four delegates; Calvert county, three delegates;
Charles county, three delegates; Baltimore county,
seven delegates; Talbot county, four delegates ;
Somerset county, five delegates; Dorchester coun-
ty, four delegates; Cecil county, five delegates;
Prince George's county, four delegates; Queen
Anne's county, four delegates; Worcester county,
five delegates; Frederick county, seven delegates ;
Harford county, five delegates; Caroline county,

Number of
Delegates.