306               JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 13,

Which was referred to the Committee on Internal Improve-
ments.                   

On motion of Mr. Timmons,                                               

The rules were suspended, to take up for its final passage a
bill entitled, an act supplemental to the several acts relating to
the powers and duties of the board of primary education of Wor-
cester county;                                                                     

Amendment proposed by the Senate;

That all the amendments heretofore reported and adopted, be
struck out, and that the 4th section of the bill be so altered as to
read as follows:

"Section 4. And be it enacted, That said board shall have
power to alter and change the bounds of the several school dis-
tricts, and to form the districts anew, by increasing or diminish-
ing the number thereof, and to divide any one or more of the
several districts into new districts, whenever it shall appear to
them proper to do so; and when such changes are made, to dis-
tribute, in conformity therewith, the annual appropriations afore-
said amongst the several districts, according to the basis pre-
scribed for the distribution thereof by this act ;"

Amendment assented to; and                          

The said bill was then read the third time, and passed by yeas
and nays as follows;                          

	Affirmative.
Messrs. Speaker,	Rolph,	Smith, of Balt, city
Plowden,	Parker,	Abbott,
Griffith,	Timmons,	Hugg,
Sudler,	Smith, of Wor.,	Fiery,
Neff,	Davis,	Witmer,
Dowell,	Carper,	Reichard,
Wright,	Grove,	Loughridge,
Cullings,	Hauver,	Corby,
Toadvine,	Wolfe,	Tower,
Wilson, of Som.,	Duvall,	Wickes,
Daniel,	Silver,	Kildow,
Dail,	Whitby,	Frey,
Frazier,	Stack,	Brown,
Bowie,	Partridge,	Buffington—42,
	Negative—None.

On motion of Mr. Stack,

The rules were suspended, to take up for the third reading a