669

It was withdrawn.

Mr, Briscoe submitted the following amendment:

Add to the 1st Section:

And at said election a vote upon the adoption or rejection
of the 40th section of the article on the Legislature Depart-
ment-be submitted and taken separately, and apart from all
other sections therein, and if upon the casting up of the votes
thereon it shall appear that a majority of the voters of this
State shall be opposed thereto that the said article shall be
inoperative and of no effect, otherwise to be and remain in full
force and effect in law;

Mr. Abbott called the previous question,
The question being,

"Shall the main question be now put?"
Mr. Clarke demanded the yeas and nays,
The demand being sustained,

The yeas and nays were called and appeared as follows:
AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs.	Ecker,	Sands,
Goldsborough, P't	Farrow,	Schley,
Abbott,	Galloway,	Schlosser,
Annan.	Greene,	Scott,
Audoun,	Hatch,	Smith, of Wor.,
Baker,	Hebb,	Sneary,
Barron,	Jones, of Cecil,	Stirling,
Brooks,	Kennard,	Swope,
Carter,	McComas,	Sykes,
Cunningham,	Mullikin,	Todd,
Cushing,	Nyman,	Valliant,
Daniel,	Parker,	Wickard,
Davis, of Wash.,	Purnell,	Wooden — 40=
Dellinger,	Russell,
	NEGATIVE.
Messrs.	Duvall,	Negley,
Belt,	Horsey,	Parran,
Briscoe,	Lansdale,	Ridgely,
Clarke,	Marbury,	Stockbridge,
Crawford,	Miller, "	Thomas — 16.
Dent,	Morgan,

So the call for the previous question was sustained.