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JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Apl. 6,

Mr. McColgan moved that the further consideration thereof
be indefinitely postponed.

The question then recurring upon concurring in the mo-
tion,

Mr. Gill demanded the yeas and nays.

The demand being sustained,

The yeas and nays were called and appeared as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs.

Hawkins, T. H. Hamilton, Hart,

Coulbourn, Cooper, Loane,

Robey, C. R. Hamilton, Greenfield,

Kemp, McWilliams, McColgan,

Lee, Stewart, of B. city, Fenton,

Riley, McAleese, Wack,

McCosker, Gill, Park—21.

NEGATIVE.
Messrs.

Hines, Speaker, Gordy, Annan,
Merritt, Johnson, Dawson,
Henkle, Davis, Williams,
Robinson, Turner, of Cecil, Freaner,
Nutwell, Mackey,' Watkins,
Turner, of Calv't, Etchison, Fletchall,
Keech, Latchford, Vanderford,
Buchanan, Thompson, Stewart, of How'd,
Banks, Pruitt, Leonard,
Turner, of B. co., Merrill, Bedsworth,
Seth, Miller, West—35.
Sudler, Nicodemus,

So the motion to indefinitely postpone the further consid-
eration of the bill was not sustained.

The question then recurring upon the passage of the bill,
as amended,

Mr. Keech demanded the previous question.
The question then being,
"Shall the main question be now put?"
It was decided in the affirmative.

The bill, as amended, was then rejected, (for want of a
constitutional majority,) by yeas and nays, as follows: