938 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 15

which the contract has been made or the alleged vio-
lation of law has taken place."

Endorsed: "Read the third time, and passed by
yeas and nays, as amended."

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

Amend by striking out all after the word "brought"
in line 4 of section 180, and insert as follows:

"And it shall not be lawful for any magistrate to
issue a warrant against any resident of said county
authorizing his arrest, or to try any such offender after
his arrest, unless the alleged offender shall reside in
said election district, or the offense or crime complained
of shall have arisen in the election district for which
such. Justice of the Peace lias been appointed, provided
however, that if there be no qualified Justice of the
Peace in the election district in which the offender
resides, or in which the crimes or offense arose, then
the Justice of the Peace of any election district shall
have jurisdiction to issue his warrant for trying such
offender in the manner prescribed bylaw, and provided
further, that the qualified Justice of the Peace of the
town of Lonaconing, Frostburg and Cumberland, shall
have jurisdiction to try offenses arising in their re-
spective towns, and that upon the suggestion in writing
of the State's Attorney of Allegany county, that the
interests of justices so required such warrant may be
issued by any magistrate of the county, and if it has
been issued before any such suggestion of the State's
Attorney; such case may be removed to some other
Justice of the Peace by the magistrate who first issued
his warrant in the premises.

Which amendments were concurred in, and the bill,
as amended, was passed by yeas and nays, as follows-

AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.

Speaker, Murphy, of Dor., Trager,
Buckler, Ray, Bouchet,
Atwell, Walls, Dawkins,
Bond, Butler, Linthicum,
Simmons, Wilson, Moore,
Smoot, Crawford Miller,