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6th. The amount of funded debt unredeemed on the 1st
day of June, 1864.
7th. The amount of appropriations made by the last Le-
gislature, with a specification of the amounts and objects of
each appropriation.
8th. The amount of money paid out of the Treasury un-
der the acts of 1864, chapter 15, and 1864, chapter 373.
9th. The amount of loans, under the acts of 1864, chapter
15, and 1864, chapter 373, which the Treasurer has adver-
tised to be taken.
10th. The interest which the State has in the various
works of internal improvements, railroads and canal com-
panies, banks, &c., and the annual receipts derived from
each to the State.
Which was adopted.
Mr. Thruston submitted the following order:
Ordered, That the Committees on the Judiciary and the
Legislative Department have leave to sit during the sessions
of the Convention until 11 o'clock A. M., daily.
Which was rejected.
The Order of the Day being the report of the majority
of the Committee on the Bill of Rights,
Was taken up.
On motion of Mr. Stirling,
The Convention took up for consideration the fourth Article
of the Report, which had been passed over informally,
Mr. Clarke submitted the following amendment:
Amend by striking out all after the word "that" in the
1st line, and inserting: —
"The Constitution of the United States and the laws made
in pursuance thereof being the supreme law of the land,
every citizen of this State owes allegiance to the Constitution
and Government of the United States within the limits of the
powers conferred by that Constitution, and is not bound by
any law or ordinance of this State in contravention or sub-
versive thereof, and the powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States
being reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,
every citizen of this State owes allegiance to the State of
Maryland so far as the sovereignty of the State has not been
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