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Mr. Stockbridge submitted the following amendment!

Sec. 5. Strike out ''otherwise, " in line four, and add after
"provide, " "some other mode of taking the same; "

Decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Stirling submitted the following amendment;

Add to the end of section three, of part three, the follow-
ing:

"And the Governor shall exclude from count the votes of
any county or city, the Return Judges of which shall fail to
certify in the returns as provided by this Schedule, that all
persons who have voted have taken the oath prescribed to be
taken unless the Governor shall be satisfied that such oath
was actually administered, and that the failure to make the
certificate has been from inadvertence or mistake; "

Decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Edelen submitted the following amendment:

Insert as an additional section the following:

"Sec. —. The obligation of the Judges of Election to ad-
minister the oath required in section 2, shall only exist in
those cases where the vote of the person offering to vote may
be challenged; "

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

"Shall the main question be now put?"
It was decided in the affirmative.

The question recurring upon the adoption of the amendment,
Mr. Edelen demanded the yeas and nays,
The demand being sustained,

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

Messrs. Duvall, Lansdale,

Billingsley, Edelen, Lee,

Dail, Hollyday, Marbury,

Davis, of Charles, Horsey, Mitchell,

Dent, Johnson, Morgan—14.