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of Montgomery, is detained from his seat in the Convention '
by indisposition.
Mr. Clarke submitted the following resolution:
Resolved, That a select Committee to consist of nine mem-
bers, of which Committee the President of the Convention
shall be Chairman, be appointed by the Chair, whose duty it
shall be to confer with the President of the United States,
our Senators and Representatives in Congress, and the ap-
propriate Committees of Congress, to ascertain and report to
this Convention, what appropriation if any, will be made by
Congress, in pursuance of the recommendations contained in
the messages of the President of the United States, of De-
cember 1862, and December 1863, and the joint Resolutions
of Congress No. 26, approved April 10th, 1862, to aid the
State of Maryland in the adoption of a system of Emancipa-
tion, and "to be and by said State in its discretion to com-
pensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced
by such change of system. "
Which was read the first time.
Mr. Goldsborough, (Mr. Purnell in the. Chair, ) submitted
the following orders which were adopted:
COURT OF APPEALS.
Ordered, That the Committee on the Judiciary, be instruc-
ted to inquire into the expediency of reporting for the action
of this Convention an elective system for the Judges of the
Court of Appeals, based on the following suggestions:
1st. That the said Court consist of five Judges, two of whom
shall be chosen from the Eastern Shore, and three from the
Western Shore counties of the State.
2d. That one of said Judges be selected from the Eastern
Shore, and one from the Western Shore counties of the State,
who shall be elected by a majority of the legal votes cast in
the whole State.
3d. That the other three Judges of said Court, be chosen,
one from each of the present Gubernatorial Districts of the
State, who shall be elected by the legal voters of said respec-
tive districts, from other counties in said district than those
from which the two Judges elected by the people of the whole
State may have been selected.
4th. That each of said Judges he elected for the period of
twenty years, be required to reside at least eight months of
the year at the seat of Government, be not less than thirty
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