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Proceedings and Debates of the 1850 Constitutional Convention
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Mr. BOWIE thought that this amendment ought
at least to pass He referred to a petition which
he said had been sent here, or would be sent here,
to form a new county out of Frederick county
and a portion of Washington county; and he sup-
pose that in course of time, the Western portion
of the State would lay the strong hand of power
upon the balance of Maryland, and would go in
for dividing their counties into small counties, by
Which they would obtain additional representa-
tion, both in the House of Delegates and in the
Senate.
Mr. THOMAS said that he was compelled to say
a few words to correct an error. The President
of the Convention knew very well the growing
little village of Weaverton, situated on the banks
of the Potomac. The petition referred to by the
gentleman, had been gotten up by the influence
of that growing village, to divide Frederick and
Washington counties, not Frederick and Balti-
more counties. He knew that there was a re-
monstance against this, about as numerous against
as for the proposition. He knew that the dele-
gation were unanimous against such a proposition
either now or in the future.
The question was then taken on the amendment
offered by Mr. THOMAS, and it was agreed to.
The question then recurred upon agreeing to
the report as amended, upon which the yeas and
nays had been ordered, which were taken with
the following result:
Affirmative—Messrs. Chapman, Pres't, Cham-
bers, of Kent, Howard, Buchanan, Bell, Welch,
Sherwood, of Talbot, Colston, Chambers, of Ce-
cil, McCullough, Miller, Grason, Wright, Thom-
as, Shriver, Gaither, Biser, Annan, Sappington,
Stephenson, Magraw, Nelson, Thawley, Stewart,
of Caroline, Gwinn, Stewart, of Baltimore city,
Brent, of Baltimore city, Sherwood, of Baltimore
city, Fiery, John Newcomer, Michael Newcomer,
Anderson, Hollyday, Slicer, Fitzpatrick, Smith
and Shower—37.
Negative--Messrs. Morgan, Blakistone, Hope-
well, Ricaud, Donaldson, Dorsey, Wells, Randall,
Kent, Sellman, Sollers, Jenifer, Dickinson,
John Dennis, James U. Dennis, Dashiell, Wil-
liams, Hodson, Phelps, Bowie, Tuck, Sprigg,
Bowling; Dirickson, McMaster, Hearn, Jacobs,
Carter, Ware, Davis, Kilgour and Waters—32.
So the article was adopted as amended
Mr, Bowie gave notice of his intention when
the Convention is full, to move a reconsideration
of the vote of the Convention just taken on said
article.
After some conversation as to the business be-
fore the Convention—
On motion of Mr. CHAMBERS, of Kent, the
Convention look up for consideration the report
submitted by Mr. Johnson, chairman of the Committee
on the Legislative Department; the question
pending before the Convention at the time
the report was postponed being on an amendment
offered by Mr. Donaldson, as a substitute for the
third section of the report, and to be found on
page 334 of Journal, viz;
"The first election for delegates shall be held
on the first Monday of November, 1851, and the
delegates then chosen shall hold their seats for
the term of one year only; the Senators hereto-
fore elected shall hold their seats until the first
Monday of November, 1802, when an election
shall be held for Senators and Delegates; and
therafter, on the same day in every alternate year,
an election shall be held for delegates and for one-
half of the Senators, as nearly as may be, unless,
in accordance with the preceding sections, the
Legislature shall provide for the annual election
of delegates."
Mr. DONALDSON (with the consent of the Convention)
so modified his amendment as to insert
after the word "on," in the first line, the words
"the Tuesday after," and after the word "the,"
fourth line, by inserting "Tuesday after the."
The question then recurred upon accepting the
substitute, as amended, in lieu of the third section
of the report.
Mr. BOWIE said he would like to know the reason
why there should be a change of the day
from the second Wednesday of October to the
first Monday of November.
Mr. CHAMBERS demanded the yeas and nays,
which were ordered and taken, and resulted as
follows:
Affirmative—Messrs. Chapman, Pres't, Mor-
gan, Blakistone, Hopewell, Ricaud, Chambers,
of Kent, Donaldson, Dorsey, Wells, Randall,
Kent, Jenifer, John Dennis, James U. Dennis,
Dashiell, Williams, Hodson, Phelps, Bowie,
Tuck, Sprigg, Bowling, Dirickson, McMaster,
Hearn, Jacobs, Fiery, John Newcomer, Davis,
Kilgour, Waters and Smith—33.
Negative—Messrs. Sellman, Howard, Buchanan,
Welch, Dickinson, Sherwood, of Talbot,
Colston, McCullough, Miller, Grason, Wright,
Thomas, Shriver; Gaither, Biser, Annan, Sap-
pington, Stephenson, Magraw, Nelson, darter,
Thawley, Stewart, of Caroline, Gwinn, Stew-
art, of Baltimore city, Brent, of Baltimore city,
Sherwood, of Baltimore city, Ware, Michael
Newcomer, Anderson, Hollyday, Slicer, Fitz-
patrick, and Shower—34.
So the Convention refused to accept the substitute.

The question then recurred upon the adoption
of the 3d section of the report.
Mr. GRASON remarked that the election of
delegates and the Governor ought to be on the
same day.
Mr. CHAMBERS said, he had hoped that the
election would not be.. on a Monday. It had,
however, been the practice many years ago, but
it was a practice exceedingly unpleasant and
annoying, especially to the religious portion of
the people, as citizens were in the habit of as-
sembling at different points to canvass the mer-
its and fitness of the different candidates in the
field; and thus politics were the order of the
Sabbath day, and consequently its sanctity was
violated and desecrated. To select Monday
would, in his judgment, be a very retrograde
step.
On motion of Mr. CHAMBERS, of Kent, the
section was amended by striking out in the
second line "Monday," and inserting, in lieu
thereof, "Wednesday."
Mr. C. observed that what the majority of the


 
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