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Monday in October, eighteen hundred and seven, and on the first Monday in October in every year thereafter,
assemble at the usual place of holding the elections in their respective wards, and shall elect, by ballot, two
members to represent the said ward in the first branch of the city council, and the persons so elected shall be
residents of the ward for which they are elected, and shall be proprietors of leasehold or freehold property in
the said city to the value of five hundred pounds current money. And be it enacted, That the voters in the
several wards of the said city, qualified as aforesaid, shall, on the first Monday in October, eighteen hundred
and seven, and on the first Monday in October in every second year thereafter, assemble at the usual place of
holding the elections in their respective wards, and shall elect, by ballot, one member to represent the said
ward in the second branch of the city council, and the person so elected shall be a resident of the ward for which
he is elected, and shall be a proprietor of leasehold or freehold property in the said city to the value of five hun-
dred pounds current money. And be it enacted, That in all cases the names of persons voted for, and the
unices to which they are respectively elected, shall be distinguished in each ballot, and the judges of the said
elections shall conduct the same in the manner and form prescribed by the act to regulate elections, passed at
the present session, shall make their return accordingly, and deposite the same, with their polls, in the office
of the register of the city, and it shall be the duty of the said register to notify the persons so elected, and in
case of vacancy or vacancies in either branch of the city council, the same shall be supplied by election in the
same manner as vacancies in the first branch are directed to be supplied in the original act. And be it enacted,
That no person shall be eligible to the office of mayor or register, or as a member, or ns clerk of either branch
of the city council, who holds an office of profit or trust under the government of the United States, the state
of Maryland, or the corporation of the city of Baltimore. And be it enacted, That the first and second branch
of the city council shall, in the first week of their annual session, by their joint ballot, recommend two persons
to each office now existing, or which may arise under any ordinance of the said corporation, and the mayor
shall appoint and commission one of the persons so recommended to fill the respective offices during one year,
and may also fill up all vacancies which shall happen in any office during the recess of the city council. And
be it enacted, That so much of the said original act, or any supplement thereto, as are inconsistent with, or
contrary to, the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed; provided nevertheless, that the,
changes and alterations ordained and established by this act, in addition to those prayed by the corporation,
shall be assented to at the time and in the manner herein after mentioned. Provided always, and be it enacted,
That the several amendments and alterations established by this act, in addition to those prayed by the corpo-
ration, shall have no effect or operation unless the same shall be assented to by a majority of all the members of
the first branch of the city council, after a new election of members, in the first session after such new election,
but in case the members of the first branch of the city council, or a majority of them, should determine to
adopt a part of the said amendments and reject the remainder, then it shall and may be lawful for them so to
do, and the amendments so assented to shall be valid and obligatory to all intents and purposes as a part of the
charter of the city of Baltimore. " Resolved in the affirmative.

The question was then put, Shall the said bill pass ? The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Scott, B. Mackall, Smoot, Blake, Hawkins, Forwood, Turpin, Smith,

Hurtt, Ogden, Cox, Sudler, Cockey, Ayres, Jump, Yates,

Gale, Lemmon, Porter, Gleaves, Kuhn, Holbrook, Stephen, Tomlinson,

Merriken, Harryman, Van-Horn, Bishop, Montgomery, Bayard, Bowles, Rizer. 35.

Dorsey, Dickinson, Contee,

NEGATIVE.

Neale, Plater, Parnham. Jackson, Hyland, Hall, Ellicott, Selby. 15.
Hebb, Stuart, Chapman, Cottman, Ward, Shaaff, Carroll,

So it was resolved in the affirmative.

On motion, ORDERED, That the printer to the state- strike three hundred copies of an act of the general
assembly, entitled, An act to reduce into one the several acts of assembly respecting elections, and to regulate
said elections, for the use of the judges of elections in the several districts in their respective counties.

The clerk of the senate delivers the bill authorising Henry Howard, late sheriff and collector of Anne-Arun-
del county, to complete his collection endorsed, " will not pass. " The bill to enlarge the powers of the levy
court of Baltimore county, and for other purposes, endorsed, " will pass. " Ordered to be engrossed. And the
fallowing message:

BY. THE SENATE, January 20, 1886.

GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES,

WE haw received your message of this day requesting a reconsideration of the resolution in favour of Ro-
bert Halkerstone, of Charles county. The resolution was dissented from principally because the officer in-
tended to be benefitted by it appears to us to have a just claim on. the United States for a pension, and it would
therefore b unnecessary to burthen this state particularly in providing for him.

We sympathize in the distresses of an old soldier, whose merits we admit on your representation of them-,
but as we think it the duty of congress to provide for him, we have declined a reconsideration of the resolution. -

in his favour.

By Order T. W. HALL, clk.
Which was read.