State and the protection and preservation of the subjects thereof, according to such acts as are or shall be in force within the same. Provided, that the General Court shall not authorize any town to loan or give its money or credit, directly or indirectly, for the benefit of any corporation having for its object a dividend of profits, or in any way aid the same by taking its stock or bonds.

Resolved, further, that Part II, Article 6, be amended by striking out the whole of said Article and by inserting in place thereof the following:

ART. 6. The public charges of government, or any part thereof, may be raised by taxation. The subjects of taxation may be divided according to their kind or value into classes differently taxed. Taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of subjects within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax.

The resolution was read, laid on the table to be printed and referred to the Committee on Legislative Department.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMMITTEES.

The President announced the following standing committees:

On Bill of Rights and Executive Department.

Streeter of Concord.

Hall of Dover.

Buxton of Boscawen.

Cavanaugh of Manchester.

Pattee of Manchester.

Gaffney of Nashua.
Jacobs of Lancaster.
Bartlett of Hanover.

Bowker of Whitefield.

Howard of Portsmouth.
Towne of Franklin.

Charron of Claremont.

Meader of Rochester.

Norwood of Keene.

Clement of Warren.

Frost of Fremont.
Towle of Northwood.
Bartlett of Pittsfield.
Goulding of Conway.
Tilton of Laconia.

On Legislative Department.

Lyford of Concord.

Amey of Lancaster.
Snow of Rochester.
Barton of Newport.
Doyle of Nashua.

Scammon of Exeter.

Brennan of Peterborough.

Spaulding of Manchester.

Watson of Keene.

McAllister (Geo. I.) of Manchester.

Hale of Laconia.

Evans of Gorham.

Wright of Sanbornton.

Brown of Berlin.

Duffy of Franklin.

Eastman of Portsmouth.

Butler of Haverhill.

Haslet of Hillsborough.

Hutchins of Stratford.

Foote of Wakefield.

On Judicial Department.

Plummer of Laconia.
Howe of Concord.

Demond of Concord.

Upton of Bow.

Hamblett of Nashua.

Belanger of Manchester.

Prescott of Milford.

Colby of Claremont.

Madden of Keene.

Donigan of Newbury.
Aldrich of Northumberland.

Woodbury of Salem.

Lewis of Amherst.

Pettee of Durham.

Smith of Haverhill.
Doe of Somersworth.
Sise of Portsmouth.
Baker of Hillsborough.
Hodges of Franklin.

Chandler of Chatham.

On Future Mode of Amending the Constitution and Other

Proposed Amendments.

Stone of Andover.

Page of Portsmouth.

Wallace of Canaan.
Walker of Grantham.

Varney of Rochester.

Bartlett of Derry.

Lawrence of Haverhill.

Jones of Lebanon.

Craig of Marlow.

Emerson of Milford.

Hull of Bedford.

Rogers of Pembroke.

Morrison of Peterborough.
Young of Easton.

Shirley of Conway.

Ripley of Stewartstown.

Farrell of Manchester.

Hodgman of Merrimack.

Schellenberg of Manchester.

Spring of Laconia.

On Time and Mode of Submitting to the People Amendments Agreed to by the Convention.

Pillsbury of Londonderry.

Wilson of Manchester.

Wentworth of Plymouth.
Keyes of Milford.

Chase (L. J.) of Concord.

Callahan of Keene.

Duncan of Jaffrey.

Hoyt of Sandwich.
Beede of Meredith.
Curtis of Berlin.

Morse of Littleton.
Dow of Manchester.

Angell of Derry.

Farmer of Hampton Falls.

Hayden of Hollis.

Duncan of Hancock.

Foster of Waterville.

Parsons of Somersworth.

Beaman of Cornish.

Bunton of Manchester.

On Elections.

Shurtleff of Lancaster.
Brown of Concord.

Rollins of Alton.

Wetherell of Exeter.
Ayres of Franconia.

Huntress of Keene.
Stanley of Lincoln.
Roy of Manchester.
Chapman of Manchester.
Bergquist of Berlin.

Hallinan of Nashua.

Towle of Newmarket.

Deschenes of Manchester.

Young of Rochester.

Glancy of Manchester.

Schenck of Tamworth.

Rice of Rindge.

Sayers of Manchester.

Davis of Croydon.

Smart of Bennington.

Mr. Duncan of Jaffrey moved that the Convention resolve itself into Committee of the Whole for the purpose of considering Resolution No. 2, Relating to the Powers of the General Court and Resolution No. 5, Relating to Taxation.

Question being on the resolution of Mr. Duncan of Jaffrey,—

Mr. Kenison of Ossipee.-Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention, it has occurred to me that among the members of this Convention are a goodly number of farmers and others directly or indirectly interested in agricultural and industrial enterprises. It is also apparent that there are many amendments here which somebody wants to have a hearing on. This is a time when these people who are engaged in that kind of work cannot be too busy. Also, another and to my mind a