1874.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 419

Also, favorably,

The Senate bill entitled an Act to amend the sixth section
of the Act of 1858, Chapter 410, entitled an Act to incorpo-
rate the Mineral Hill Mining Company of Maryland, by dis-
pensing with the making and publication of the annual state-
ment therein provided for, and by providing that Statements
of the affairs of the said Company shall be made as provided
for in the sixty-sixth section of the Act of Assembly of 1868,
chapter 471,

Which was read a second time.

The bill entitled an Act to pay and compensate Win. Frank
Tucker and Andrew K. Syester for legal services rendered in
the United States Court, in defence of certain Officers of Reg-
istration, indicted and prosecuted therein, for an alleged vio-
lation of the Act of Congress, entitled " An Act to enforce the
rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several
States of the Union, and other purposes,"

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

The bill entitled an Act to authorize the Governor, Comp-
troller and Treasurer to settle the accounts of Charles E.
Maguire, late Weigher of Live Stock, and to compromise
With his sureties, if in their judgment the same is advisable,
Was read a third time and rejected by yeas and nays,
as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.

Colton, Cooper, Fenton,

Nutwell, C. R. Hamilton, Stake,

Lancaster, McWilliams, Clark,

Gordy, Hart, Fletchall,

Robey, Loane, Maclin,

Riley, McColgan, Stewart, of How'd.

McCosker, Joyce, —20.

NEGATIVE.
Messrs.

Merritt, Hodson, Dawson,
Henkle, Etchison, Staylor,
Robinson, Latchford, Berry,
Bird, Thompson, Watkins,
Keech, Kemp, Wack,
Matthews, Pruitt, Park,
Merryman, Merrill, Brace,
Seth, Miller, Vanderford,
Valliant, Lamar, Brown,
Sudler, Nicodemus, Leonard,
Coulbourn, Annan, Bedsworth—35.
Duer, Lee,