1876.] OF THE SENATE. 571
Which was adopted by yeas and nays as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. President, Gorman,
Aydelette, Hepbron,
Bannon, Knight,
Brewer, Lloyd,
Cooper, Phelps,
Ford, Stevens—13.
Getty,

NEGATIVE.

Messrs. Duke, McCulloh,
Dennis, Mudd,
Freeman, Newcomer,
Humphreys, Steiner,
Lee, Walsh—11.
Lawrence,
Mr. Stevens submitted the following amendment:

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Sec. 1, line 24, strike out "fifteen," and insert ''twenty
thousand," (for the House of Refuge.)
Which was rejected.

Said bill as amended was then read the second time.
Mr. Lloyd, from the Committee on Finance, reported,
Senate bill entitled an Act to appropriate a sum of money
to pay the claim of Joseph Groff,

With the request that said Committee be discharged from

the further consideration of said bill.

Which was so ordered.

Also, by Mr. Lloyd, favorably,

Senate bill entitled an Act to refund to Joel Haines of Car-
roll county, the (mm of $23.10 erroneously paid into the
Treasury.

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Walsh, from the Committee on Finance, reported fa-
vorably,

Senate bill entitled an Act to authorize and empower the
County Commissioners of Harford county, to refund to the
executor of Edward Painter, late of said county, county
taxes paid in error.

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Humphreys, from the Committee on Chesapeake Bay
and Tributaries, reported favorably,

House bill entitled an Act to repeal chapter 221, of the
Acts of 1874, regulating the measurement of Oysters.

Which was read the second time.