190 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 8,

the third time three-fourths concurring, and passed by yeas
and nays as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. Billingslea, Bowie, Compton, Davis, of Caroline, Davis, of Washington, Earle, Frazier, Henkle, Jump, Kimmell,

Mackall, Maddox, Spates, Stephenson, Stirling, Tome, Trail, Vickers, Waters— 19.

NEGATIVE—None.
Said bill was then sent to the House of Delegates.

Mr. Davis, from the Select Committee to which was refer-
red the bill entitled, an Act to authorize and empower the
County Commissioners of Washington county, in their discre-
tion to assume such part of the debt of the Mayor and Coun-
cilmen of the town of Hagerstown, known as the McCausland
debt, as they may deem just and equitable;

Reported it with the following amendment:
AMENDMENT PEOPOSED.

Strike out the 1st section and insert in lieu thereof the fol-
lowing, viz:

Whereas, in the Summer of 1864, a raid was made into
Maryland by the Confederate army, under the command of
General McCausland, in which the city of Hagerstown, in
Washington county of said State, was threatened to be burn-
ed by said McCausland, unless a large sum of money and a
large amount of clothing should be advanced to the said Mc-
Causland as an indemnity for the security of the said city "from
destruction,

And, whereas, the Mayor and Council of said city, and its
inhabitants, did pay the money and furnish the clothing so
required by the said McCausland, to save the said city from
the threatened calamity, the entire amount of which has since
been assumed by the said Mayor and Council, thus making it
a formidable debt to the said city,

And. whereas, the said county of Washington, ownes valu-
able property in said city, viz : a court house, a jail and an
alms-house, which would inevitably have been destroyed with
the city had it been burned, and should consequently, and as
a matter of sheer justice, assume its proper and equitable share
of the debt incurred for its safety from destruction.