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620 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 2,
The bill entitled an Act to repeal and re enact with amend-
ments, Article 89, of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Slander," to enable married women to maintain actions for
words spoken maliciously touching the character, or reputa-
tion for chastity and tending to the injury thereof.
Was read a second time and ordered to be engrossed for a
third reading.
The bill entitled an Act to provide against fraudulent vot-
ing at Elections,
Being upon a second reading,
Mr. Vandiver moved to strike out the enacting clause of
said bill.
The question recurring upon sustaining the motion,
Mr. Smith, of Dorchester, demanded the yeas and nays,
The demand being sustained, the yeas and nays were called
and appeared as follows:
AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.
Smith, Speaker, Snowden, McWilliams,
Boyer, Onley, McAleese,
Usilton, Vandiver, Albaugh,
Hodges, Berkerneier, Sanders—12.
NEGATIVE.
Messrs.
Dunbar, Constable, Harig,
Lancaster, Ward, Fenton,
Hooper, Hance, Scott,
Baldwin, Neal, Farrow,.
Whitelock, Purnell, Ranger,
Smith, of B. co., Riggs, Jones,
Given, Hinks, Rawlings,
Fitzjarrell, Naill, Atkinson,
Dodson, Koons, Rinehart,
Lankford, Boyle, Lamotte,
Gunby, Culbreth, Waters, of Car'l,
Ford, Rusk, Donaldson,
Lambdin, Hoblitzell, Clark,
Smith, of Dor. McGlone, Gordy,
Waters, of Dor., Chaisty, Browning—46.
Briscoe,
So the motion to strike out the enacting clause of the hill
was decided in the negative.
On motion of Mr. McGlone,
The further consideration thereof was postponed, and the
bill made the order of the day for Tuesday next at 12.30
o'clock P. M.
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