1446 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Apl. 4,

Add a new section, to be numbered section 9, and to read
as follows:

"And be it enacted, That the Board of County Commis-
sioners of Talbot county shall appoint a competent person to
measure all canoes or other boats authorized to catch oysters
under this Act in the waters of Talbot county, according to
the rule now in use by the Custom-House of the United States,
said measurer to receive as a fee for his services fifty cents per
ton for each ton the boat may measure, to enter into bond to
the county aforesaid in the sum of five hundred dollars for the
faithful performance of his duty, and to hold his office during
the term of said Commissioners."

The proposed amendments were adopted,

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

AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.

Hines, Speaker, Latchford, McAleese,
Bond, Thompson, Greenfield,
Colton, Kemp, Joyce,
Robinson, Pruitt, Groh,
Lancaster, Merrill, Berry,
Keech, Koons, Grimes,
Banks, Miller, Stake,
Seth, Lamar, Fletchall,
Valliant, Annan, Wack,
Sudler, Grafton, Park,
Coulbourn, Lee, Brace,
Duer, McCosker, Waters,
Gordy, T. H. Hamilton, Vanderford,
Hodson, Cooper, Stewart, of How'd,
Turner, of Cecil, C. R. Hamilton, Bedsworth,
Davis, McWilliam Glotfelty—49.
Etchison,

NEGATIVE—None.
Also,

The bill entitled an Act to authorize the County Commis-
sioners of Dorchester county to aid in the construction and
completion of the Vienna R'ail Road, with proposed amend-
ments :

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

Section 1, line 10, strike out the word "fifty," and insert
"thirty."