1861.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 227

Mr. Sangston moved their reference to a select committee,
consisting of three members of this House with power to in-
vestigate the subject matter of said memorial and the manu-
facturing department of the Maryland Penitentiary, to send
for persons and papers and take testimony under oath in all
matters pertaining to the same; to sit during the recess of the
Legislature and report on the reassembling of the same;

Mr. Ford moved to refer the same to the committee on
Ways and Means;

Which was lost;

The question then recurring upon the original proposition
to refer the petitions to a select committee, the yeas and nays
being demanded, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.

Kilbourn, Sp'r, Legg, Harrison,
Morgan, Starkey, Thomas,
Mackubin, Kessler, Wallis,
Denison, Claggett, Sangston,
Quinlan, Straughn, Morfit,
Chaplain, Goldsborough, Scott,
Holland, Warfield, Gordon,
Maxwell, Brune, Mills,
Bryan, Winans, Turner,
Jones, of P. G., Pitts, Brown—30.

NEGATIVE.

Messrs.

Durant, Lawson, Wilson,
Medders, Keene, Bayless,
Welch, McIntire, McCoy,
Briscoe, Miller, Brining,
Parran, Landing, Fiery,
Burgess, Routzahn, Griffith,
Ford, Johnson, Barnard,
Renshaw, Salmon, McCleary,
Jones, of Talbot, Naill, Gorsuch—28.
Stanford,

So the motion was sustained, and Messrs. Sangston, Pitts
and Ford were constituted said committee.

Mr. Mackubin proposed the following: