312 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 2,road-sides and in the fields of Washington and Frederick
counties, Maryland, and Adams county, Pennsylvania, your
Committee would suggest that the said sum of five thousand
dollars, so as aforesaid appropriated, be devoted to the pur-
chase and erection of a separate Cemetery, to be located at
Hagerstown, in Washington county, to be named the Wash-
ington Cemetery, wherein the remains of the Confederate
dead from the aforesaid battle fields, and also from Gettys-
burg, Pennsylvania, shall be interred, and to that end have
instructed the Chairman to report the following bill.
THOS. B. GATCH,
JNO. B. THOMAS,
ALEX. NEILL,
J. C. CLARKE,
C. H. HYLAND. Which was read and adopted.
Mr. Clarke, from the same Committee, reported a bill en-
titled an Act to repeal an Act, passed at the January session,
1868, chapter 104, appropriating a sum of money to remove
the Confederate dead to Antietam National Cemetery, and.
in lieu thereof to enact the following. Which was read the first time, and
On motion by Mr. Clarke,
Said bill was referred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. Fields, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom the
leave was granted, reported a bill entitled an Act to repeal
the Acts of 1867 and 1868, allowing and paying pensions to
Maryland soldiers of the war of 1812, Which was read the first time. The Senate bill entitled an Anatomy Act was read the
third time and lost for want of a constitutional majority by
yeas and nays, as follows : AFFIRMATIVE. Messrs. President, Hyland,
Browne, Malone,
Clarke, Parker,
Earle, Sellman,
Henkle, Welch,
Henry, Wilson—12. NEGATIVE. Messrs. Biggs, Spates,
Fields, Stephenson,
Maddox, Timmons—7.
Sayder,
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