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Washington, District Of Columbia
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A committee of the Maryland House of Delegates presented a report on Friday the 18th instant, criticizing defects in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the state constitution and recommending a convention in 1803 to revise and amend it, subject to legislative confirmation.
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The committee to whom leave was given to bring in a bill to alter such parts of the constitution and form of government as relate to the Senate of Maryland, submit the following opinions:
That in their consideration the legislative part of the constitution is defective and requires amendment, so far as relates to the Senate filling up their own vacancies, being elected for so long a space of time as five years, without any responsibility to the people; and that in their consideration the executive department is also deficient, inasmuch as the duties to be performed by the first officer of the state are unimportant, and scarcely attach respectability or responsibility to the discharge of them, and that the responsibility of the council to the Governor is very inconsiderable.
That the judicial establishment is also very defective, and requires amendment, as in its present form it is inconvenient, productive of delay, and very expensive.
Your committee therefore are of opinion that as this constitution and form of government requires amendment in its most material, substantial and important parts, and the amending them in the form and manner therein prescribed, would make it a constitution comprised and only to be found in the acts of the General Assembly, that leave ought to be given to bring in a bill recommending a convention to be assembled in the year 1803, to revise and amend the said constitution, and in case the said act of assembly shall be confirmed by the succeeding legislature, that then the said act shall have full force and the same validity as other acts of the legislature.
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Friday The 18th Instant
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The committee to whom leave was given to bring in a bill to alter such parts of the constitution and form of government as relate to the Senate of Maryland, submit the following opinions: That in their consideration the legislative part of the constitution is defective and requires amendment, so far as relates to the Senate filling up their own vacancies, being elected for so long a space of time as five years, without any responsibility to the people; and that in their consideration the executive department is also deficient, inasmuch as the duties to be performed by the first officer of the state are unimportant, and scarcely attach respectability or responsibility to the discharge of them, and that the responsibility of the council to the Governor is very inconsiderable. That the judicial establishment is also very defective, and requires amendment, as in its present form it is inconvenient, productive of delay, and very expensive. Your committee therefore are of opinion that as this constitution and form of government requires amendment in its most material, substantial and important parts, and the amending them in the form and manner therein prescribed, would make it a constitution comprised and only to be found in the acts of the General Assembly, that leave ought to be given to bring in a bill recommending a convention to be assembled in the year 1803, to revise and amend the said constitution, and in case the said act of assembly shall be confirmed by the succeeding legislature, that then the said act shall have full force and the same validity as other acts of the legislature.