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Said bill was then read a third time and passed by yeas
and nays, as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs.

Hines, Speaker, Turner, of Cecil, Hart,
Bond, Mackey, Loane,
Colton, Davis, Greenfield,
Merritt, Latchford, Harig,
Henkle, Lee, Groh,
Robinson, Riley, Fenton,
Lancaster, Dawson, Berry,
Turner, of B. co., Cooper, Stake,
Seth, C. R. Hamilton, Clark,
Valliant, McWilliams, Wier,
Sudler, Staylor, Park,
Coulbourn, Stewart, of B. city, Brace,
Gordy, McAIeese, Waters,
Johnson, Gill, Glotfelty—43.
Hodson,

NEGATIVE.

Messrs.

Thompson, Brown, Leonard,
Kemp, Stewart, of How'd, Bedsworth—7.
Galt,

Said bill was then sent to the Senate.

Hon. Richard O. Hollyday, Secretary of State, delivered
the following message:

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Annapolis, March 19th, 1874.
To the House of Delegates:

I herewith respectfully return, without my approval, House
Bill No. 86, entitled "An Act to repeal an Act entitled an
Act to incorporate the First Hagerstown Hose Company,
passed December session, 1822, chapter 42, and to amend and
re-enact the same as follows."

This bill, although nominally to amend an old Act of in-
corporation, in effect proposes to create a corporation "capa-
ble in law to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and re-
tain to them and their successors lands, tenements, rents,
annuities or other hereditaments," and "to grant, demise,
alien and dispose of" the same as it "may judge most con-
ducive to the interest of the Company."

It will be noticed that under the provisions of the proposed
charter, the amount of real estate, and other like property,
which this corporation might purchase and retain, is only