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Leave was granted to Messrs. Burgess, Briscoe, Durant,
Bryan and Welch, to bring in a bill to amend Article LXVI.
of the Code of Public General Laws, relating to negroes, by
repealing the 9th section thereof, and substituting the follow-
ing sections therefor.

The bill entitled, an act to divide the Western poll of
District No. 2, of Frederick county, into two polls, was read
the second and by special order the third time, and passed by
yeas and nays as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs.

Kilbourn, Sp'r, Maxwell, Thomas,
Durant, Miller, Wallis,
Morgan, Bryan, Sangston,
Rasin, Wootten, Morfit,
Medders, Legg, Scott,
Welch, Landing, Wilson,
Briscoe, Kessler, McCoy,
Parran, Claggett, Brining,
Burgess, Straughn, Gordon,
Quinlan, Goldsborough, Barnard,
Jones, of Talbot, Warfield, Gorsuch,
Chaplain, Winans, Mills,
Dennis, of Som'r, Harrison, Brown—40.
Holland,

NEGATIVE.

Messrs,

Stanford, Routzahn, Bayless,
Lawson, Johnson, Fiery,
McIntire, Naill, McCleary—9,

Said bill was then sent to the Senate.

The hour having arrived for taking up the order of the
clay,

The House took up for consideration the following resolu-
tions as proposed by Mr, Chaplain:

WHEREAS a series of resolutions accompanying the report
of the Committee on Federal Relations of the House of Dele-
gates, indicating the policy which justice and humanity dic-
tates to be pursued by the State of Maryland in the present
crisis in our national affairs, and her desires as a sovereign
State with reference to the policy which ought to be adopted
by the Federal Government toward the Confederate States of