730 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 25,.

Combs, of St. Mary's, Humphreys,

Cooper, Lancaster,

Dennis, Lee,

Franklin, McLane,

Freeman, Miller,

Garey, Steiner,

Gorman, Stump—18.

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

Senate bill entitled an Act to appropriate a sum of money
to enable the managers of the State House of Correction to
prepare the said House for the reception of inmates and for
the erection of certain work shops therein,

Was rejected, (for want of a constitutional majority,) by
yeas and nays, as follows :

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. Bannon, Hepbro

Combs, of Allegany, Lee,

Cooper, McLane,

Gorman, Stump—8.

NEGATIVE.

Messrs. Dennis, Lancaster,
Garey, Miller,
Hill, Steiner—6.

On motion by Mr. Gorman,

The vote by which said bill failed, for want of a constitu-
tional majority,

Was reconsidered.

Senate bill entitled an Act to repeal Chapter 377, of the
Acts of 1872, entitled an Act to repeal an Act of 1870, Chap-
ter 311, entitled an Act to repeal an Act of 1868, Chapter
407, entitled "Public Education," providing a general sys-
tem of Free Public Schools for the State of Maryland, and to
repeal all laws inconsistent therewith, and to re-enact the
same with amendments, and to repeal Chapter 473, of the
Acts of 1874, amendatory of the Acts of 1872, Chapter 377,
and to re-enact the said two Acts of 1872, Chapter 377, and
the Act of 1874, Chapter 473, with amendments, so as to
read as follows,

Was read the third time, and rejected (for want of a con-
stitutional majority,) by yeas and nays, as follows :