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in the neighborhood of said public road, who shall be di-
rected to examine said road and to report to said County Com-
missioners whether, in their opinion, it will be advisable to
close said road as a public highway ; and the said County
Commissioners shall give notice in some newspaper printed
in said e unty, for at least three weeks, when they will con-
sider the report of the said Examiners so appointed by them,
and if the report of the said Examiners shall advise the clos-
ing of said road as a public highway, and if the County Com-
missioners, after taking the testimony of all persons who
shall appear before them to testify as to the expediency of
closing said road, shall be convinced that the said road is not
needed as a public highway, they shall direct the same to be
closed as a public road; but if in their discretion it is expe-
dient so to do, they may direct the said road to be kept open
as a private road, to be kept in repair by the persons inter-
ested in the use of it.

The amendments were severally read and adopted,

And the bill, as amended, passed by yeas and nays, as- fol-
lows :

AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.

Hines, Speaker, Hodson, Gill,
Bond, Turner, of Cecil, Loane,
Colton, Mackey, Greenfield,
Henkle, Robey, McColgan,
Robinson, Thompson, Joyce,
Nutwell, Kemp, Groh,
Bird, Pruitt, Fenton,
Turner, of Calv't, Merrill, Berry,
Lancaster, Miller, Grimes,
Hawkins, Nicodemus, Stake,
Keech, Annan, Clark,
Buchanan, Grafton, Watkins,
Matthews, Lee, Fletchall,
Merryman, Riley, Wier,
Turner, of B, co., Dawson, Wack,
Banks, Williams, Brace,
Seth, McCosker, Waters,
Valliant, T. H. Hamilton, Vanderford,
Sudler, Cooper, Galt,
Goulbourn, McWilliams, Brown,
Duer, Foster, Stewart, of How'd,
Gordy, Stewart, of B. city, Bedsworth,
Johnson, McAleese, Glotfelty—69.

NEGATIVE—None.

The bill entitled an Act to make Good Friday a legal
holiday,