898 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 21,

agreement as to said vahie and consideration, the Mayor and
City Council aforesaid shall appoint one referee, and the
corporation hereby created shall appoint another referee, who,
in event of disagreement, shall appoint an umpire, the de-
cision of whom shall be final as to the price to be paid as
aforesaid. And provided further, That if the said Mayor and
City Council shall decline or neglect to make such purchase
within the aforesaid two years, then the grants and privi-
leges held and enjoyed by said corporation shall continue to
belong to it for fifteen years longer from the expiration of said
original fifteen years, subject to all the terms and conditions
imposed and recognized by this Act, and continuable there-
after in like manner, from time to time as aforesaid, upon
the said terms and conditions.

Which was read.

Mr. Turner moved a division of the question.

Decided in the affirmative.

The question then recurring upon the first proviso, it was
adopted.

The second proviso was then adopted,

And the bill, as amended, read a second time and ordered
to be engrossed for a third reading.

Mr. Wootton moved that the House do now take a recesa
until 8 o'clock this P. M.

Decided in the negative.

The bill entitled an Act to repeal section 41 of Article 56,
of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled "Licenses,"
sub-title, "Traders," passed January session, 1868, and to
re-enact the same so as to read as follows,

Was read a second time and ordered to be engrossed for a,
third reading.

The bill entitled an Act to amend the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws, Article 10, relating; to attachments, and section
4, by omitting the words, "relating to citizenship,"

Was read a second time and ordered to be engrossed for a
third reading.

On motion of Mr. Hopkins,

At 3 o'clock P. M., the House topk a reeese until 8 o'clock
this P. M.