812 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 13,

	NEGATIVE.
Messrs.	Hubbard,	McElroy,
Coad,	Wentz,	Harig,
Iglehart,	Pentland,	Markland,
Stewart, of Dor.,	Smith, of B. city,	Marshall,
Wenner,	Col ton,	Conway — 14.

So the motion prevailed, and

The House, at four o'clock and thirty minutes P. M.,
took a recess until 8 o'clock P. M.

NIGHT SESSION.

FRIDAY, March 13, 8 o'clock, P. M.
The House met.
Present at the call of the roll the following members :

Messrs. Stewart, (Speaker,) Loker, Coad, Boyer, Ham-
mond, Iglehart, Deale, Bond, of Calvert, Dalrymple,
Mitchell, Chapman, Slingluff, Biddison, Lowe, Horsey,
Stewart, of Dorchester, Davis, of Cecil, Richards. Mearns,
Keech, Williams, Sudler, Legg, Smith, of Worcester, Al-
baugh, Dutrow, Wenner, Bowlus, Maynard, Silver, Brown,
Moore, Wentz, Morse, Hubbard, Blake, Latrobe, Pentland,
Smith, of Baltimore city, Bond of Baltimore city, Colton,
Chaisty, McElroy, Harig, Marshall, Conway, Herbert,
Rohrer, Seibert, Riggs, Conley, Kean, Trimble, Hall, Davis,
of Carroll, Jordan, Harden, Clark, Fooks—60.

The House resumed the unfinished business of the morning
session, being

The bill entitled an Act to add a new Article to the Code
of Public General Laws, to be entitled "Public Education,"
providing a general system of Free Public Schools for the
State of Maryland, and to repeal all Laws inconsistent there-
with.

Said bill being upon a second reading,

Mr. Wentz submitted the following amendments :

Section 3, line 9, after the word "district," provided that