1861,] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 43

On motion of Mr. Gordon,

The committee on Judiciary were discharged from further
consideration of the petition of Mr. Maxwell, relative to a
new election in Cecil county.

Mr. Gordon, from the committee on the Judiciary, report-
ed favorably upon the bill entitled, an act to amend the
eighty-third article of the Code -of Public General Laws, by
exempting a certain amount of property from execution, with
proposed amendments ;

Said bill being upon its second reading,

Amendment proposed—second line, section first, strike out
"three," and insert "one."

The yeas and nays beiag ordered, appeared as follow:

	AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.
Kilbourn, Sp'r,	Landing,	Thomas,
Mackubin,	Kessler,	Wallis,
Briscoe,	Claggett,	Sangston,
Jones, of Talbot,	Routzhan,	Morfit,
Chaplain,	Salmon,	Scott,
Long,	Naill,	Bayless,
Lawson,	Brune,	Gordon,
Holland,	Winans,	Roop,
Miller,	Pitts,	Gorsuch — 29,.
Jacobs,	Harrison.,

	NEGATIVE.
Messrs.
Morgan,	Bryan,	Coudy,
Rasin,	Wootten,	Eakle,
Medders,	Jones, of P. G.,	Brining,
Welch,	Legg,	Griffith,
Parran,	Starkey,	Harding,
Compton, Burgess,	Dennis, of Wor'r Staughn,	McCleary, Barnard,
Denison,	Goldsborough,	Turner,
Quinlan,	McCoy,	Brown— 28.
Renshaw,

So the amendment was adopted.
Second amendment proposed,

Section second, line fourth, strike out "three," and insert
"one."

Which was adopted.