406 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 14,

Mr. Gorsuch from Select Committee, reported favorably a
bill entitled, an Act to declare the sanction of the General
Assembly of Maryland, to the bequest of Rhoda Henry, de-
ceased, to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in
the Village of Jefferson, in the county of Frederick;

Mr. Lindsey from Select Committee, reported favorably a
bill entitled, an Act to amend the first section of the Act pass-
ed at January session 1860, chapter 303, entitled, an Act to
carry into effect the eight section of the Act entitled, an Act
for the promotion of internal improvements, passed at De-
cember session, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, chapter
395;

Mr. Wampler from Select Committee, reported favorably a
bill entitled, an Act to empower the County Commissioners
of Carroll county, to subscribe on behalf of the said county,
to the capital stock of the Western Maryland Railroad Com-
pany, or to endorse its second mortgage bonds to an amount
not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars;

Which were severally read a first time.

Mr. Hammond from Select Committee, reported favorably
(without amendments) the Senate bill entitled, an Act to in-
corporate the town of Ellicotts city;

Which was read a second time.

The time having arrived to which the Order of the Day
was postponed,

The House resumed the consideration of the Majority and
Minority Reports of the Committeeo n Elections, to the right
of the Sitting Members from Allegany, to a seat on this floor;

The questjon being upon the substitute proposed by Mr.
Evans, to the report of the Majority of the Committee ;

Pending the consideration of which,
On motion of Mr. Calvert,

A call of the House was ordered, and the following mem-
bers responded to their names :

Messrs. Miller, (Speaker,) Morgan, Hall, Clarke, Cameron,
Hutchins, Ford, Shipley, Davis, of Charles, Thomas, Jones,
Dennis, Parsons, Kerr, Lindsey, Magruder, Calvert, Buhr-
man, Baker, Linthicum, Gorsuch, Steiner, Appleman, Tobey,
Bishop, Hutton, Coleman, Flaherty, Robson ,Knott, Lank-
ford, Waltemeyer, Feig, Pitts, Aydelott, Gordy, Nelson,
Wilson, Spicer, Gilpin, McCulley, Haller, Bruce, McCulloh,
Neale, Benton, Poole, Criswell,Wampler, Gore, Horsey King,
Hammond—53.

On motion of Mr. Calvert,
All further proceedings under the call were dispensed with.