782 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 15,

Mr, Meekins submitted the following amendment as a sub-
stitute for the amendment submitted by Mr. Owens:

Section 6, line 2, after the word "interest," strike out all
to the word "provided," in the same line.

Which was rejected.

The question then recurring upon the adoption of the
amendment submitted by Mr. Owens,

On motion of Mr. Wootton,

The yeas and nays were ordered and appeared, as follows :

	AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.	Biddle,	Sword.
Wilmer,	Thomas, of Fred.,	Watkins,
Duke,	Bowlus,	Standish,
Lankford,	White,	Myers,
Meekins,	Hardcastle, of Car.,	Shower,
Touchstone,	Garey,	Jordan,
Owens,	Blake,	Winters— 21.
Richards,
	NEGATIVE.
Messrs.	Marbury,	McLaue,
Latrobe, Speaker,	Thomas, of Q. A.,	Col ton,
Loker,	Brown,	Kirk,
Beck,	Dennis,	Collins,
Kilbourn,	McCreery,	Markland,
Baldwin, of A. A.,	Ritter,	Marshall,
Mitchell,	Baldwin, of Har ,	Hoblitzell,
Chapman,	Hopkins,	Neill,
Cameron ,	Sanner,	Murdock,
Shipley,	Hamilton,	Hilton,
Turner,	Cooper,	Crouse,
Hammond,	Morse,	Merrick,
Hardcastle, oI'Tal.,	Webb,	Gorman,
Brattan,	Wilson, of B. city,	Crawford,
Harrington,	Wiley,	Gordy — 44 .

So the amendment was rejected.

Mr. Turner submitted the following amendment as a sub-
stitute for section 6 :

That the lawful rate of interest of the State shall be seven
per cent., provided however, except when the agreement to
pay such greater rate of interest is in writing, any per cent,
can be charged which the parties may agree to.

Which was rejected.

Mr. Standish submitted the following amendment:

Strike out section 6.