1874.] OF THE SENATE. 117

The Senate bill entitled "An Act to refund to Morgan H.
Clark, of Washington county, the sum of fifty dollars paid
by him into the Treasury, on or about the 24th day of
January, 1872,"

Was read the third time and passed by yeas and nays as
follows :

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. President, Earle,
Aydelotte, Getty,
Blake, Longwell,
Brewer, Mudd,
Billingsley, Stevens,
Brattan, Steiner,
Claggett, Spencer
Denson, Walsh—-16.
NEGATIVE—None.

Said bill was then sent to the House of Delegates.

Senate bill entitled ''An Act to repeal section 1 of Article
LXXIII. of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled
Penitentiary, regulating the appointment of Directors for
the Maryland Penitentiary and to re-enact the same with
amendments,"

Was read the third time and passed by yeas and nays, as
follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. President, Earle,

Aydelotte, Fields,

Blake, Getty,

Brewer, Knight,

Billingsley, Longwell,

Brattan, Stevens,

Claggett, Spencer,

Denson, Walsh 16.
NEGATIVE.

Messrs. Mudd, Steiner—2.

Said bill.was then sent to the House of Delegates.

The hour of 1 o'clock having arrived, the Senate proceeded
to the consideration of the order of the day, being

The Senate bill entitled "An Act to release the estates
and property, real personal and mixed, devised and bequeathed
to "The Johns Hopkins University," from tax on the clear
value thereof, commonly known as the tax on collateral in-
heritances, distributive shares and legacies,"

Being on second reading,