THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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a call of a Convention, the Governor shall issue
his proclamation announcing the result to the
people of the State, and ordering an election to be
held in the several counties of this State, and in
Baltimore city, on the second Wednesday of Oc-
tober, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, for Dele-
gates to the Convention to frame a New Constitu-
tion and Form of Government.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That at the election
to be held for Delegates to the Convention as pre-
scribed in the third section of this act, the legal
voters shall, by ballot, elect Delegates to a Conven-
tion; and each county, and Baltimore city, shall be
entitled to the same number of Delegates to the
Convention as they now have respectively in both
Houses of the General Assembly of Maryland ;
and the laws relating to the election of Delegates
to the General Assembly, shall in all respects
govern and apply to the election of Delegates to
the said Convention, and the said Convention
shall determine on the validity of the election
and qualification of its members; and any legal
voter shall be eligible to a seat in said Conven-
tion.

Number of Del-

egates.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the Delegates
elected to said Convention, shall meet at the city
of Annapolis, on the first Wednesday of January,
eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and shall con-
tinue in session until the business for which they
were convened shall be fully completed and finish-
ed; and the compensation of said Delegates to
said Convention shall be four dollars per day
during the session thereof, and the mileage now
allowed by law to members of the House of De-
legates; and said Convention shall have power to
appoint such clerks and other officers as may be
necessary to facilitate the business of said Con-
vention, and the compensation of said clerks and
other officers shall be the same as is now paid, to
similar clerks and officers of the House of Dele-
gates; and the said sum of four dollars per day,
and the mileage aforesaid to each Delegate to said
Convention, and the pay aforesaid of the said
clerks and other officers of said Convention, shall
be paid to them respectively, in the same way and
manner as the per diem and mileage of Delegates

Compensation.