1867] OF THE SENATE. 731

Mr. Earle submitted the following message :

BY THE SENATE,
ANNAPOLIS, March 21, 1867.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates:

We propose, with the concurrence of your honorable body,
to postpone the adjournment of the two houses of the General
Assembly from the time heretofore fixed, to twelve o'clock
Tuesday, M., the 26th inst.

By order,

A. GASSAWAY,

Secretary.

Mr. Billinglea moved a call of the Senate.
The Sergeant-at-Arms was sent to inform the absent Sena-
tors that their attendance was required in the Senate Cham-
ber.

On motion by Mr. Vickers,
Further proceedings under the call were dispensed with.

The question recurred upon the adoption of the message
submitted by Mr. Earle, and it was

Determined in the negative by yeas and nays as follow :
AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. Earle, Henkle, Kimmel, Mackall, Spates, Messrs. Billingslej Bowie, Compton, Davis, of Caroline, Davis, of Washington, Frazier, Holton,

Stephenson, Stirling, Vickers, Waters— 9. NEGATIVE. Jump, Maddox, Mules, Philpot, Tome, Trail, Young — 14.

Mr. Earle moved that the order of the day be postponed
until 8 o'clock this evening;

Determined in the affirmative.

The President laid before the Senate the following commu-
nication from John W. Garrett, Esq., President of the Bal-
timore and Ohio Rail Road Company :

To the Honorable BALTIMORE, March 19, 1867.
The Senate of the State of Maryland:

I have received from the Clerk of the Senate a copy of the
order passed by that Body on the 14th day of February,
1867, as follows: