498 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 13,

Proceedings of Saturday's Session read and approved.
The President laid before the Senate,
Senate bill entitled an Act to authorize and empower the
State's Attorney's for Dorchester and Caroline counties to stet
certain cases on the Dockets of the Circuit Courts for said
counties respectively, which came from the House of Dele-
gates on Saturday, the 11th inst., erroneously endorsed as
"Passed by yeas and nays," without reference to any amend-
ments, whereas said bill had been amended as follows:

AMENDMENT PEOPOSED.

Sec. 1, line 3, strike out the words "empowered in," and
in the 4th line the words "their discretion," and insert the
word "directed."

Add as Section 3. "And be it enacted. That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Which were concurred in, and bill passed by yeas and
nays as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. President, Knight,
Brewer, Lee,
Cooper, Lawrence,
Duke, Lloyd,
Dennis, McCulloh,
Freeman, Phelps,
Ford, Stevens,
Getty. Steiner,
Joyce, Suit—18.

NEGATIVE— None.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates appeared and delivered
the following message:

BY THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES,

March 13th, 1876.
Gentlemen of the Senate :

We respectfully ask your Honorable Body to return to this
House the bill providing for a vote on Local Option in Bal-
timore county.

By order,

WM. H. COLE,

Acting Chief Clerk.
Which was read, and

On motion by Mr. Stevens,
Was ordered to lie over.
Also, the following bills:

House bill entiled an Act to repeal and re-enact with
amendments, Article 89, of the Code of Public General