952 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 16,

dred and sixty-seven of Article four of the Code of Public
Local Laws relating to the jail of Baltimore, and to enact
a substitute therefor,

Which was read a first time.

Mr. Williams, from the Committee on Ways and Means,
reported favorably a bill entitled, an Act to amend and re-
enact section 2 of article 94 of the Code of Public General
Laws, and to add a new section to said Article, to come in
after the 26th section,

Which was read a first time.

Also, favorably, without amendment, the Senate bill en-
titled, an Act to amend an Act entitled, an Act to aid and
encourage enlistments into the Maryland regiments in the
service of the United States, passed 1864, chapter 15, and
to provide for the prompt payment of the bounties therein
specified and to repeal section 4 of said Act. and to re-enact
the same so as to make the bounties therein specified pay-
able to the widows and heirs of deceased soldiers, and to make
said bounties payable to the heirs of such soldiers as having
been honorably discharged after faithful service have died
without receiving the benefits of its provision,

Which was read a second, and by special order a third
time,

And passed by yeas and nays as follow ;

	AFJIBMATIVE.
Messrs. Miller, (Speaker,) Morgan, Beck, Hall, Williams, Claike, Cameron, Ford, Shipley, Nicolai, avis, of Charles, Jump, Jones, Phelps, Kerr,	Golibart, Lindsey, Calvert, Rouzer, Baker, .Gorsuch, Steiner, Bamford, Tobey, Hoffhine, Bishop, Burche, Coleman, Neilson, Flaherty, Hooper,	Lankford, Boswell,' Davis, of B. city Waltemeyer, Bixler, Nelson, Whiteford, Wilson, Spicer, McCulley, Bruce, McCulloh, Devecmon, Brydon, Neale Benton — 47.
	NEGATIVE — None.

Said bill was then returned to the Senate.

The Speaker laid before the House the following commu-
nication from the Hon. Philip Francis Thomas, United States
Senator elect to the Congress of the United States: