556 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 18,

"Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect.
from the date of its passage."

Which was adopted.

Said bill, as amended, was then read the second time, and
ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

Mr. McLane, from the Committee on Finance, reported
favorably

Senate bill entitled an Act to refund to William Howard,
of Wicomico County, a sum of money improperly paid into
the Treasury.

Which was read the first time.

House bill entitled an Act to repeal Section 64, of Article-
75, of the Code of Public General Laws, relating to "Plead-
ings, Practice and Process," as amended by Chapter 283, of
the Acts of January Session, 1864, and to re-enact the same
so as to read as follows,

Was read the third time, and passed by yeas and nays, as
follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs. Bannon, Hill,

Combs, of Allegany, Humphreys,
Dennis, Lee,
Franklin, McLane,
Freeman, Stump,
Garey, Sulivane,
Gorman, Welfley,
Hepbron, Wilson—16.

NEGATIVE—None.
Said bill was then returned to the House of Delegates.

Senate bill entitled an Act appropriating certain sums of
money for professional services rendered the State of Mary-
land by Thomas Donaldson and James Revell,

Was read the third time, and passed by yeas and nays as.

follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. Bannon, Lee,

Combs, of Allegany, McLane,
Freeman, Steiner,
Gorman, Stump,
Hepbron, Sulivane,
Hill, Welfley,
Humphreys, Wilson—14.

NEGATIVE—None.
Said bill was then sent to the House of Delegates.