1876,] OF THE SENATE. .233

NEGATIVE.

Messrs. Aydelotte, Mudd,
Cooper, Stevens,
Duke, Steiner,
Joyce, Suit—9.
Knight,

The President, at 3.25, P. M., announced the Senate ad-
journed until to-morrow. Wednesday, the 16th, at twelve
o'clock.

WEDNESDAY, February 16th, 1876.

Senate met at 12 M.

Prayer by Rev. Father Sehwarz.

Present at roll call, the following Senators:

Messrs., President, Aydelotte, Bannon, Brewer, Cooper,
Duke, Dennis, Freeman, Ford, Getty, Gorman, Hepbron,
Humphreys, Joyce. Knight, Lee, Lawrence, Lloyd, Mc-
Culloh, Mudd, Newcomer, Phelps, Stevens, Steiuer, Suit,
Walsh-26.

Proceedings of yesterday read and approved.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates appeared and deliver-
ed the following bill:

House bill entitled an Act to repeal and re-enact with
amendments section 25, of Article 4, of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "City of Baltimore."

Which was read the first time and referred to the Balti-
more City Senators.

Also, returned

Senate bill entitled an Act to provide for the payment to
Isaac D. Jones, of the balance of his claim made to the Gen-
eral Assembly of 1874, for expenses and compensation as one
of the Commissioners to adjust the boundary line between
the States of Virginia and Maryland.

Endorsed, "Passed by yeas and nays, with the following
proposed amendment:"

Section 1, line 4, strike out the words "and sixty,"

"Which,