594 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 3,

Also,

The following message :

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Annapolis, March 3d, 1874.
To the House of Delegates:

I return, without approval, House Bill No. 25, entitled
"An Act to authorize the Trustees of the Almshouse for
Allegany county to provide homes for children under their
charge, by binding them out under indentures of appren-
ticeship. ''

There seems to me to be no necessity for this bill. It is
local in its character, while ample provision is made in the
Code of General Laws, Article 6, sections 17 and 18, to meet
the cases intended to be covered by it.

Indeed, the general law contains features better calculated
to protect the apprentices; besides, the granting of power to
the Trustees of the Almshouse to rescind contracts, (thus
interfering with the jurisdiction of the Orphans' Court for
Allegany county,) is of questionable propriety.

WM. PINKNEY WHYTE.
Which was read.

Also,

Delivered the bill named therein,

Being an Act to authorize the Trustees of the Almshouse
for Allegany county to provide homes for children under
their charge, by binding them out under indentures of ap-
prenticeship.

The question then recurring upon the reconsideration of
the vote by which said bill was passed, as provided by the
Constitution, section 17, Article 2,

The vote was reconsidered.

The question then recurring upon the passage of the bill,
the veto of the Governor to the contrary notwithstanding,

The yeas and nays were called and appeared as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.

Bond, Davis, Berry,
Lancaster, Etchison, Watkins,
Hawkins, Pruitt, Wier,
Seth, Koons, Wack,
Valliant, Miller, Park,
Coulbourn, Nicodemus, Brace,
Duer, Annan, Glotfelty—21.