1030 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 24,

Endorsed, "Passed by yeas and nays, with proposed
amendment."

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Strike out section 2, and insert in lieu thereof the follow-
ing:

SECTION 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

The proposed amendment was adopted, and the bill, as
amended, passed by yeas and nays, as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.

Hines, Speaker, Davis, McAleese,
Bond, Etchison, Greenfield,
Robinson, Thompson, Groh,
Nutwell, Kemp, Berry,
Bird, Merrill, Grimes,
Lancaster, Koons, Stake,
Keech, Miller, Watkins,
Matthews, Lamar, Fletchall,
Merryman, Nicodemus, Wier,
Seth, Annan, Wack,
Valliant, Grafton, Park,
Sudler, Williams, Brace,
Duer, McCosker, Vanderford,
Grordy, Cooper, Galt,
Johnson, C. R. Hamilton, Maclin,
Turner, of Cecil, Staylor, Bedsworth,
Mackey, Stewart, of B. city, Glotfelty—51.

NEGATIVE—None.
Also,

The bill entitled an Act to authorize the Sheriffs of the sev-
eral counties and City of Baltimore to collect certain fees due
the late Clerk of the Circuit Court for St. Mary's county, in
the same manner as such officers' fees have been heretofore
collected,

Endorsed, " Passed by yeas and nays, with proposed
amendment."

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.
Add to the third section:

''And provided, That this Act shall not be construed as
to deprive any of the parties against whom such fees shall be
demanded from any defence which they are now entitled by
law."