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 over the State wrote exactly alike and who was getting them up. Oaughter).
 On motion of MT. Browne, chairman of the committee on taxation, proviso was adopted to section 10 of that article that 1t should not apply to the cities of Shelf field and Tuscumbia.
 A new ordinance referred to that and which provided for an inheritance tax of 2h per cent on the corpus where property goes to a collateral branch of the family was adopted by vote of 55 to 16
 Mir. Browne then said that the section of the report of the committee on taxa ton referring to local school taxation, and which had been laid on the table, could be considered along with the report of the article on education. He therefore moved to take section 5 relating to coun- ty taxation from the table so as to strike this part of 1t out. This was adopted He then moved the adoption of section 5 with this provision stricken out. This section as thus amended read as follows.
 Section 5. No county in this State shall be authorized to levy larger rate of tax ation in any one year on the xalue of the taxable property therein than # of per, centum. Provided, that to pay debts existing at the ratification of the con- stitution of 1875, an additional rate of N of l per centum may be levied and col- lected. which shall be exclusively appro- priated to the payment of such debts or the interest thereon; provided further, that to pay any debt or liability now existing again any county, incurred for the erection, construction and mainte- nance of the necessary public buildings or bridges or that may hereafter be ere ated for the erection of necessary public buildings bridges or roads any county may levy and collect such special taxes, not to exceed rate of A of per centum, as may have been or may hereafter be authorized by law, which taxes so levied sively to the purpose for which the same were so levied and collected.
 This section is the same as in the pres ent constitution, except that the extra tax of A of per cent may be levied for the erection of public buildings. bridges or roads-the word "roads'' being new. The section was then adopted and the article ordered to third reading and engrossment
 The convention then adjourned until 3:30 o'clock.
 Afternoon Session.
 The convention reassembled at 3:3O o'clock, with ninety-one delegates pres- en:.
 MT. Hefiin of Chambers introduced a resolution to rescind rule 43 and provid- ing that any ordinance can be recalled from a committee at any time by ma jority vote.
 The privileges, of the floor were. on mo- tion of Mr. Jenkins, extended to Hon. c. W. Thompson, Cohgressman-elect from the Fifth district.
 MT. Wilson of Clarke moved to recon slider the vote whereby the article on mu- nicipal corporations was ordered to third reading. Under the rules this will come up tomorrow morning.
 MT. Carmichael of Coffee arose to a question of personal privilege. He stated that in a petition against free passes sent up by him this morning was a circular letter which was inadvertently put in the envelope with the. petition and was read by the clerk. He asked unanimous con- sent to have the letter withdrawn from publication in the stenographic report.
 MT. Long of Walker objected. He said it was not correspondence of private character, but was of a kind going on all over the State and the public had right to know what 1t was. There was no req. son why 1t should be withdrawn. as il was a public matter. The people of Ala bama should know the full facts. MT. Hefiin of Chambers called for c