612 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 15,

Earle, Frazier, Henkle, Holton, Jump,

Stephenson, Tome, Trail, Vickers, Young — 20. NEGATIVE — None.

Said bill was then returned to the House of Delegates.

The bill entitled, an Act to appropriate a sum of money to
purchase copies of a Digest, of the decisions construing the
statutes of Maryland, of which the Code of Public General
Laws is composed, with references to the Acts of Assembly,
by Lewis Mayer, and to regulate the distribution of the
same;

Being under consideration,

Mr. Trail submitted the following amendment:

In line 1, section 1, strike out " four thousand," and in-
sert "thirty-two hundred;"

The question on the adoption of the amendment, was
Determined in the affirmative by yeas and nays as follow :

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. Billingslea, Brodwater, Compton, Davis of Caroline, Frazier, Henkle,	Mackall, Philpot, Stephenson, Tome, Trail, Young— 12.
Messrs. Bowie, Davis, of Washington, Earle, Jump,	NEGATIVE. Kimmel, Maddox, Spates, Vickers — 8.

Mr. Trail submitted the following amendment:
In line 2, section 2, strike out word "five" and insert
"four."

Which was read and adopted.
Mr. Trail submitted the following amendment:
Section 3, line 16, strike out all after the word "removal."
The question upon the adoption of the amendment, was de-
termined in the affirmative by yeas and nays as follow :

Messrs. Billingslea, Brodwater, Compton, Davis, of Caroline,

AFFIRMATIVE. Philpot, Spates, Stephenson, Tome,