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AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. President, Lee,

Browne, Spates,
Carroll, Walsh,
Henkle, Welch—9.
Hammond,

NEGATIVE.
Messrs. Brewer, Malone,

Denson, Parker, of Worcester,
Hyland, Snyder,
Kimmel, Smith—9.
Miller,

Messrs. Biggs and Grove moved to be excused from voting
on the above amendment, and their motion was concurred in.

Messrs. Henkle, Kimmel, Malone, and Miller, also moved to
be excused from voting on the above amendment, but their
motion was not concurred in.

Mr. Hammond then moved to refer the bill to a special
committee, which motion Mr. Earle moved to amend by
laying the bill on the table,

And the amendment was adopted,
And the bill laid on the table.
Mr. Walsh submitted the following report:
Which was adopted.
To the Honorable

The General Assembly of Maryland :

The Committees on Public Buildings, of the Senate and
House of Delegates, to whom was reierred for conciirrent
action, that portion of the Governor's Message in regard to
an Executive Mansion, have in the discharge of that part of
their duties, relative to the selection of a suitable location,
examined several sites which were offered for their inspec-
tion, and have unanimously determined upon the lots offered
by Mrs. Matilda E. Green, George E. Franklin and James
W. Alien, Esqs., forming in the aggregate an entire block,
surrounded on every side by streets, as being in every respect
the most desirable for the purposes intended, for the follow-
ing reasons:

Contiguity to the State House, convenient both to the Gov-
ernor and the people ; will protect the State House in a great
degree from being in the future marred by improvements of
a character not in harmony with it; will extend the area of
the grounds now belonging to the State, and which, when
properly laid out and planted, will form a spot that every