1186 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 27,

shall apportion to Wicomico county such portion of said
fund as it will be entitled to according to the several laws
regulating the distribution of said fund, and the County
Commissioners of Wicomico are hereby authorized and re-
quired to provide for taking the census of said county, and
such census shall be certified to the Comptroller on or before
the 25th day of June, 1868.

105th. Page 47, Sources of Income, section 2, after the word
"adopted," in line 4, strike out all to the end of line 5.

106th. Section 4, line 3, page 48, strike out "State Board
of Education," and insert Board of County School Commis-
sioners.

The amendments were severally read and adopted.

Colored Population.
Amendment proposed:

106 1/2. Page 47, section 1. The total amount of taxes paid
for school purposes by the colored people of any county or in
the city of Baltimore, together with any donations that may
be made for the purpose shall be set aside for the maintaining
the schools for colored children, which schools shall be con-
ducted under the direction of the Boaid of County School
Commissioners or the Board of Commissioners of Public
Schools of the city of Baltimore, and shall be subject to such
rules and regulations as said respective boards shall pre-
scribe.

Pending the consideration of which

Mr. Bowlus moved the previous question, which was sus-
tained.

The question then being,

Shall the previous question be now put ?
.It was decided in the affirmative.

The question then recurring upon the adoption of the
amendments,

Mr, Nicolai demanded the yeas and nays.

The demand being sustained,

The yeas and nays were called and appeared as follows:

	AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.	Sudler,	Bond, of B. city,
Stewart, Speaker,	Legg,	Colton,
Beck,	Smith, of Wor.,	Chaisty,
Bond, of Calvert,	Albaugh,	McElroy,
Nicolai,	Dutrow,	Markland,
Slingluff,	Wenner,	Coudy,
Holmes,	Bowlus,	Herbert,
Rose,	Silver,	Rohrer,
Lowe,	Nelson,	McCulloh,