1868.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES, 1085

NEGATIVE—None.

So, two-thirds of all the members elected having voted in
the affirmative, the leave was granted, and

Mr. Wentz, Chairman of the Committee on Education,
reported favorably

A bill entitled an Act to continue in force for two years after
the first day of April, 1868, the Article of the Code of Public
General Laws, entitled "Public Instruction ; " provided., that
no provision for free public instruction shall be made at the
January session, 1868, of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, according to the provisions of the eighth Article of the
Constitution.

Which was read a first time.
On motion of Mr. Bicldison,

At 3 o'clock P. M., the House took a recess until 8 o'clock
P. M.

WEDNESDAY, March 25, S o'clock, P. M.

The House met.

Present at the call of the roll the following members :

Messrs. Stewart, (Speaker,) Loker, Coad, Boyer, Beck,
Iglehart, Deale, Bond, of Calvert, Dalrymple, Mitchell,
Chapman, Nicolai, Slingluff, Montague, Poteet, Biddisori,
Rose, Lowe, Corbin, Horsey, Percy, Stewart, of Dorchester,
Johnson, Davis, of Cecil, Touchstone, Richards, Mearns,
Guy, Williams, Sudler, Legg, Holloway, Smith, of Wor-
cester, Dutrow, Wenner, Bowlus, Maynard, Byers, Silver,
Nelson, Vandiver, Moore, Hubbard, Wentz, Rohb, Morse,
Blake, Pentland, Smith, of Baltimore city, Bond, of Balti-
more city, Colton, Mullin, Chaisty, Markland, Coudy, Her-
bert, Rohrer, Seibert, Riggs, Offutt, Conley, McCulloh,
Kean, Trimble, Hall, Jordan, Worthington, Clark, Fooks,
Hopkins—70.

The Secretary of the Senate returned

The bill entitled an Act appointing a Committee with
authority to purchase a lot or lots of ground in the city of
Annapolis and causing to be erected thereon a mansion for
the Governor of this State, and making an appropriation
therefor.