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Chambers, Horsey, Turner,
Clarke, Jones, of Som. Wilmer—36.
Crawford,
So the question upon its adoption was decided in the affir-
mative.
Mr. Valliant submitted the following order:
Ordered, That when this Convention adjourn on Saturday
next, it stand adjourned to meet on Thursday next, 10th, at
11 o'clock, at the New Assembly Rooms, in the city of Bal-
timore, and that a committee of five be appointed by the
Chair to carry this order into effect.
Which the Chair ruled out of order, the same proposition
having been once before decided by the Convention in the
negative.
Mr. Valliant appealed from the decision of the Chair, but
subsequently withdrew his appeal.
Mr. Schley asked permission to absent himself from the
sessions of the Convention for a few days, having been sum-
moned by the military authorities to attend a tribunal else-
where;
Which was granted.
The Resolutions submitted by Mr. Clarke on Tuesday last,
appointing a Committee to wait upon the President of the
United States, &c., in reference to compensation for the
emancipation of slaves,
Was taken -up.
Mr. Negley submitted the following amendment:
Strike out all after the word Congress, in the fifth line,
and insert, "and call the attention of the President to the
fact, that this Convention intends to insert a clause in its
Constitution, abolishing slavery immediately and uncondi-
tionally, and to suggest to him the propriety of bringing the
question of remunerating loyal slaveholders in this State be-
fore Congress, in accordance with the recommendations con-
tained in his Annual Messages of December 1862 and 1863,
and the Joint Resolutions of Congress, No. 26, approved April
the 10th, 1862, to aid the State of Maryland in the adoption
of a system of emancipation.
Mr. Daniel moved to lay the whole subject on the table.
The question being upon the adoption of the order,
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