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proper appropriation to pay any expense that may arise herein.

Sec. 16. If this Constitution shall be adopted by the people, the provisions contained herein for taking the soldiers' vote on the adoption of the Constitution shall apply to all elections to be held in this State, until the General Assembly shall provide some other mode of taking the same.

Done in Convention the sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and of the Independence of the United States, the eighty-ninth. HENRY H. GOLDSBOROUGH,

President of the Convention.

Attest:--W. R. COLE, Secretary.

STATE OF MARYLAND, Scr.:

I, GEORGE EARLE, Clerk of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, do hereby certify that this Constitution was, on this sixth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, filed in this office.

Witness my hand,

GEORGE EARLE,

Clerk of the Court of Appeals.

The said Constitution was read and adopted by yeas and nays as follows:

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Absent and not voting-Messrs. Berry, of Prince George's, Billingsley, Blackiston, Briscoe, Clarke, Dennis, Edelen, Harwood, Hopkins, Johnson, Mace, Noble, Robinette, Sands, Smith, of Carroll, Smith, of Worcester, and Thruston-17.

Mr. Hebb submitted the following order:

Ordered, That the Secretary of the Convention proceed forthwith to deposit the Constitution as adopted, passed, signed and attested, in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals.

Which was adopted.

Mr. Thomas submitted the following order:

Ordered, That the thanks of this Convention are due and are hereby tendered to Wm. Blair Lord, Esq., the Reporter, and to Henry M. Parkhurst, Esq., Assistant Reporter, for the impartial, faithful and efficient manner they have reported the Debates of this Convention.

Which was adopted.

Mr. Davis, of Charles, moved to suspend the rules to give the resolutions submitted by him on yesterday a second reading.

Decided in the negative.

The order submitted by Mr. Audoun, and postponed, in relation to requiring the oath to be taken by every person before they shall be entitled to receive any compensation as expressed in the resolution offered by Mr. Berry, of Baltimore county.

Was taken up;

The question being on the adoption of the order.

Mr. Audoun demanded the yeas and nays;

The demand being sustained,

The yeas and nays were called, and appeared as follows:

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So the question upon its adoption was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Belt moved that the Convention do now adjourn sin die;

The question being on the adoption of the motion,

Mr. Belt demanded the yeas and nays,

The demand being sustained,

The yeas and nays were called, and appeared as follows:

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So the question upon its adoption was decided in the nega

tive.

Mr. Hebb submitted the following order:

Ordered, That when this Convention adjourns to-day, stands adjourned in pursuance of a resolution of the Conver tion passed upon the 21st day of August, 1864.

Which was adopted.

Mr. Hebb moved that the Convention do now adjourn;
Decided in the affirmative.

The President, before announcing the vote, addressed th Convention as follows:

Gentlemen of the Convention:

The time has now arrived when, as your presiding office it becomes my duty to declare the termination of the labor of this body. In so doing it would not be proper to om: the observance of the time-honored custom of giving utter ance to some brief and friendly words of parting.

We have been engaged for the past four months in the work of framing anew the organic law of this State. However easy the task may appear to many, and especially to those who have never participated in such a work, yet I am sure you will concur with me that its difficulties, not a few even in times of profound peace, have been greatly increased by the condition of things by which we were surrounded.

Amid a civil war of the most gigantic proportions, our minds have been constantly disturbed by the ever recurring consideration whether the institutions, under which we have prospered so long as a nation, were to stand or fall amid the conflicts of the day. While the nation has been thus agitated throughout its entire limits, our own State has been the theatre of the most bitter contests between social and political classes ever experienced, and which it could have been wished should not have existed while we were engaged in a work of so much importance and magnitude. Our labors, though thus interrupted by scenes calculated to create the most embittered feeling, and to provoke discussions of the most exciting character, have not been marred by any of those personal animosities or collisions which might have been anticipated, and which have so often characterized the proceedings of other deliberative bodies. This is a matter of sincere congratulation, and if your President has succeeded in the accomplishment of this object, he has been encouraged and sustained by a conviction of your belief in his conscientious discharge of duty, and in his faithful endeavor at all times to award to each individual member, irrespective of party designations or particular localities, that impartial justice which should always control the action of a presiding officer of a deliberative body.

We are now about to separate for our respective homes. In all human probability the most of us may never meet again. As actors in the past and present eventful scenes, can we not all-dismissing the memory of every embittered feeling, before parting-unite in the prayer so often repeated at this desk, that the same ever living God, who has heretofore protected and defended us as one people, may, notwithstanding our civil broils, our many sins and misgivings, still preserve us "under the shadow of his wing" as one undivided nation; that whatever changes may be occasioned by the rapidly transpiring events of the day-whatever modifications may be produced in the character of our social institutions, the Union, as the great ark of our national safety, with the Constitution, may be vouchsafed to us and our children; and that ere many years shall roll around, we may

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