868 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 21

eaoh come within the classes of ere4itors mentioned.
herein and for whose benefit the said Act of 1896, is
hereby extended, and the clerk of the said Court is
hereby required and directed to give notice of the pro-
visions of this Act, and of the date fixed for filing claims
by wheekly publications in each county In this State
through which said canal passes, prior to the first day of
July, 1900, the cost of said publication to be paid as the
said court may direct and an asignee of any such claim
shall be entitled to the benefits of this Act upon proofs
of such claim as required of the creditor and also of the
due assignment thereof.
"Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shalt take ef-
fect from the date of its passage."
Which proposed amendment was adopted, and
The bill was read the secont iime and ordered to be
engrossed for a third reading.

ORDER OF THE DAY.
The hour of 8.30 P. M. having arrived,
The Senate considered the Order of the Day being,
Senate bill entitled "An Act to repeal seetlon 679, of
the Acts of 1898, chapter 123, entitled ‘City of Baltimore,'
sub-title ‘Miscellaneous Local Laws,' and to re-enact said
section with amendments."
The question recurred upon whether or not the bill
should be substituted for the unfavorable report by the
Committee on Finance.
Which las decided in the negative by yeas and nays
as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs. Bryan, Putzel—3.
Moses,
NEGATIVE.
Messrs. President, Kirwan,
Baker, Marsh,
Beasman, Messick,
Betts, Moore,
Bouic, Peter,
Brewing ton, Raven scroft,
Crothers, Rohrback,