94 JOURNAL or PROCEEDINGS May 9,

Goldsborough, of Talbot, Watkins,
Goldsborough, of Dor.; Whitaker,
Heckart, Yellott—19.
Kimmel,

NEGATIVE—NONE.

Said bill was then sent to the House of Delegates.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates returned the following
Senate bill, entitled,

An act to repeal the 198th section of article nineteen of the
Code of Public Local Laws, relating to the schools of Somerset
county.

Endorsed "passed by yeas and nays."
Also, a House bill, entitled,

An act to amend the fourth article of the Code of Public Local
Laws, relating to the city of Baltimore, by adding to the said
article the following section ————, giving authority to the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to issue certificates of
debt to the amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dol-
lars, in addition to the amount authorised to be issued by sec-
tion 939 of said fourth article.

Read the first time, and referred to Messrs. Yellott, Whitaker,
and Miles.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates delivered the following
bill, entitled,

An act to repeal the 19th section of the twenty-ninth article of
the Code of Public General Laws, and the proviso to the 33d
section of the fifth article of the said Code, relating to stay of
execution, and to extend the time for enforcing the execution
of Judgments.

Which was read and referred to the Committee on Judicial
Proceedings.

Mr. Dashiell, from the Committee on Colored Population, re-
ported favorably on a bill, entitled,

An act to repeal the 49 and 50th section, relating to free
negroes, of article sixty-six of the Code of Public General Laws.

Mr. Bradley submitted the following
AMENDMENT:

After the words "Stale line," in the fourth line, insert "un-
less he shall be in the employ of a white citizen of this State,
then not remain out of the State more than three days."