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ployees of the Senate be directed to act as Assistant Post-
master to the Senate during the absence of the Postmaster.

On motion by Mr. Fields,

The vote by which the bill relating to the Baltimore Chesa-
peake and Delaware Bay Rail Road Company,

Was ordered to lie over,

Was reconsidered,

Said bill then being under consideration,

It was read the third time and passed by yeas and nays as
follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs. President, Lloyd.

Blake, McCulloh,
Billingsley, Stevens,
Claggett, Steiner,
Davis, Spencer,
Fields, Tuck,
Getty, Walsh—15.
Knight,

NEGATIVE—None.

Said bill was then sent to the House of Delegates.

Mr. Tuck, from the Committee on Judicial Proceedings,
reported favorably on

The House bill entitled "An Act to confirm the devise and
bequest of Benjamin Parsons, late of Wicomico county, de-
ceased, to the Vestry of Spring Hill Parish, for certain uses

and purposes therein named."

Which was read the second time.

On motion by Mr. Tuck, it was

Ordered, That the Senator from Somerset have leave of ab-
sence to-morrow.

Senate Joint Resolutions requesting the Governor to grant
a respite to J. W. Davis,

Coming up,

On motion by Mr. Longwell,

Were ordered to lie over.

The House bill entitled "An Act to repeal an Act to repeal
section 4 of Article XLI. of the Code of Public General
Laws, title 'Fish and Fisheries,' sub-title 'Head of the Bay,'