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On Senator Williams' second order the committee report
favorably so that Section -6 of Rule 21, as amended, will read:

"6. When a Bill or Joint Resolution is reported with
amendments, the amendments as proposed shall be typewritten

on separate paper, attached to the original Bill or Joint Reso-
lution and three copies of said amendment shall be furnished
for the use of the desk clerks. When said amendment is pro-
posed from the floor, two copies of said amendment shall be (
provided; and all orders that require a reference to a com-
mittee shall also be offered in triplicate. " [Which favorable
report was adopted. ]

On Senator Williams' order of February 1, 1916, the com-
mittee report favorably as follows, and offer it as air amend-
ment to Rule 29. At the end of Rule 29 begin a new paragraph
as follows:

"After a Bill has been journalized the first time it shall

in future Journal references be simply referred to by number
and a short descriptive title (as in the calendar), and the
number shall be printed in capital letters. All amendments
including those which lie over, or on which action is deferred,
may be printed but once, and subsequent reference of Journal
to same may be as follows: 'With amendments as printed in
Senate Journal of (blank date). '" [Which favorable report
was adopted, ]

REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTEES,,

Mr. Williams, from Select Committee, reported Senate Bill
No. 26, entitled "An Act to prohibit any minister of the Gospel
or other person in Cecil county who is now or may hereafter
be authorized under the laws of Maryland to perform the
marriage ceremony to give, directly, or indirectly, to any per-
son any fee as an inducement to bring any persons contem-
plating marriage to him for the purpose of performing the.
marriage ceremony, " with the recommendation that it be re-
ferred to the Committee on Judicial Proceedings. [Which
was so referred. ]

The President distributed the following message from the
House of Delegates, being House Bill No. 29, entitled "An
Act to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 6 and
10 of Chapter 172 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of 1914 (said sections originally enacted by Chapter
210 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1912),