686 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 21

consideration, House Bill No. 152, introduced by Mr. Bou-
chelle.

By order: P. WATSON WEBB,

Secretary.

[Which was ready assented to, and sent to the House of
Delegates. ]

Also BY THE SENATE,

March 21, 1916.
To His Excellency Emerson C. Harrington,

Governor of Maryland.
SIR:

The Senate of Maryland, with the concurrence of the House
of Delegates, herewith requests the withdrawal and return
of Senate Bill No. 144; the same being Chapter 41 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1916.

By order: P. WATSON WEBB,

Secretary.
[Which was read and adopted. ]

LAID-OVER BILLS.

The President laid before the Senate, laid-over Bill, with
amendments, being

HOUSE BILL No. 468, BY MR. BROWN.

SUBJECT: ELECTION DISTRICT — ALLEGANY
COUNTY.

With amendments as printed in the Senate Journal of
March 20. [Which amendments were read and adopted. ]
[Which favorable report was adopted, which was read the
second time. ]

BILL VETOED.

At 7 o'clock P. M. the Secretary of State appeared and
delivered the following message from the Executive:

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

ANNAPOLIS, March 21, 1916.
To the President of the Senate.
SIR:

I return herewith, without my approval, Senate Bill No.
180, for the following reasons:

Under the present law, the State's interest in works of in-
ternal improvement can be sold upon sixty days' advertise-