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of immigration and immigration agent, and establishes a
new office in their place, with additional powers, the in-
cumbent of which is styled "superintendent of labor and
agriculture. " The subject of the continuance of the first
two mentioned officers was referred to the legislative
committee, of which he (Mr. B. ) was a member, and they
had today directed the chairman of the committee to re-
port a section abolishing said offices, as he believed that
all of these offices were unnecessary, and he must vote no.
The bill was passed by yeas 77, nays 25—Messrs. Bate-
man, Bennett, Bradley, Brewer of Baltimore city, Brown,
Chambers, Cosgrove, Duvall, Galt, Groome, Hayden,
Hoblitzell, Harvey of Somerset, Howard, Jones, Keating
Longwell, McCormick, Morris, Peters, Pleasants, Riggs,
Spates, Stoddert and Watkins of Caroline.
The report of the committee on the judiciary was then
taken up on its third reading, and a number of verbal
amendments reported by the committee on revision and
compilation were agreed to.
Mr. Watkins, of Montgomery, asked to open the 27th
section to an amendment equalizing the salaries of the
county judges. The difference between the compensation
of the chief justices and associate justices was too much.
If the section was opened he would offer an amendment
placing the salaries of the chief justices at $3, 200.
Mr. Alvey also asked to open the section so as to equal-
ize the salaries, as it was the opinion of many that the
scale as now fixed was too disproportionate and would
cause much inconvenience. He, however, would propose
a different scale than that of the gentleman from Mont-
gomery. He (Mr. A. ) would propose to reduce the chief
justices to $3, 500 and increase the associate justices to
$2, 800.
The Convention refused to entertain the amendment of
Mr. Watkins.
Mr. Hammond said he should, at the proper time, offer
an amendment to strike out both the 27th and 31st sec-
tions relating to the salaries of judges and then go into
committee of the whole to settle this whole subject of
salaries, about which there was much dissatisfaction.
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