564 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 13,

Compton, Earle, Henkle, Jump, Kimmel,	Stephenson, Stirling, Vickers. Waters— 13.
Messrs. Billingslea, Davis, of Caroline, Frazier,	NEGATIVE. Holton, Mules — 5 .

Said bill was then returned to the House of Delegates.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates returned the resolu-
tion in relation to the election of Hon. P. F. Thomas to the
Senate of the United States,

Endorsed, passed by yeas and nays.
And delivered the following message :

BY THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES,

March 13, 1867.
Gentlemen of the Senate :

We have received your message, proposing that the Presi-
dent of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Delegates, ad-
dress a joint letter to the Hon. Philip Francis Thomas, in-
forming him of his election to represent the State of Mary-
land in the Senate of the United States, to fill an existing
vacancy, and concur therein.

By Order,

W. R. COLE,

Chief Clerk.
Which was read.

Mr. Vickers, from the Committee on Judicial Proceedings,
reported the bill entitled, an Act to add three sections to the
28th article of the Code of Public General Laws, relating
to corporations, to come in as the thirtieth, thirty-first and
thirty-second sections of said article,

Which was read the first time.

A communication was received from His Excellency, Gov-
ernor Swann, by the hands of Peter Leary, Jr., Esq., Private
Secretary, endorsed on "Executive business."

The Senate resumed the consideration of the bill entitled,
an Act to repeal article f 1 of the Code of Public General
Laws of the State of Maryland, entitled Oysters, and to re-
enact the same with amendments.

Mr. Frazier submitted the following amendment:

Sec.—. And be it enacted, That all licenses to take or
eatch oysters with scoops, scrape, drag or dredge, in the
waters of the Chesepeake Bay, shall be numbered, and the
owner or master of every boat or vessel so licensed, shall be