1450 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Apl. 4,

The Senate bill entitled an Act to provide for the collec-
tion of taxes upon personal property not included in the gen-
eral assessment.

The unfavorable report was adopted,

On motion of Mr. Gill,
At 6 1/4 o'clock, P. M.,
The House took a recess until 8 o'clock, this P. M.

NIGHT SESSION.

SATURDAY, April 4—8 o'clock, P. M.
The House met.

Present at the call of the roll, the following members :

Messrs. Hines, (Speaker,) Bond, Colton, Bird, Turner, of
Calvert, Lancaster, Hawking, Keech, Buchanan, Banks, Seth,
Valliant, Sudler, Coulbourn, Duer, Gordy, Johnson, Turner,
of Cecil, Etchison, Latchford, Kemp, Pruitt, Merrill, Miller,
Lee, Riley, Dawson, Williams, McCosker, T. H.Hamilton,
Cooper, McWilliams, Stewart, of Baltimore city. Gill, Green-
field, Groh, Stake, Clark, Wier, Wack, Park, Brace, Waters,
Vanderford, Maclin, Stewart, of Howard, Leonard—48.

Mr. Brace, from the minority of a Committee, submitted the
following

REPORT.

The undersigned, a minority of the Judiciary Committee,
(to which was referred the Joint Resolutions of Mr. Koons, of
Frederick county, "that the retention of the word 'white' in
the Constitution of this State is obnoxious to censure, because
it is in contravention of the National Constitution, and in op-
position to the spirit of the age,") are of opinion that said
Resolutions should be passed by this House, and submits the
following as their reasons for such opinion:

This word occurs in section 1, of Article 1, of the Constitu-
tion, and in the following connection: "All elections shall be
by ballot, and every ''white" male citizen of the United States,
of the age of twenty-one years or upwards, * * * *
shall bs entitled to vote," &c. In the consideration of these
Resolutions, two questions arise: First, is the existence of the
word "white" in this Article open to censure? Second, is it
proper, that if such is the case, this Legislature should take
action showing its condemnation of the fact.