310          JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 13,

Heath,	Jarrett,	Hall,
Toadvine,	Silver,	Tower,
Wilson, of Som.,	Whitby,	Frey,
Dail,	Stack,	Brown,
Frazier,	Partridge,	Buffington—48.
	Negative—None.

The said bill was then sent to the Senate.

A bill entitled, an act to amend and explain an act relating to
free negroes in Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne's counties, passed
at December session 1849, chapter 538,

Was read the third time, and passed by yeas and nays as fol-.

lows:                                                                            

	AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs. Griffith,	Stubbs,	Valiant,
Sudler,		Miller,	Lester,
Dorsey,		Rolph,	Hugg,
Neff,		Parker,	Askew,
Waters,		Smith, of Wor.	Harrington,
Dowell,		Davis,	Fiery,
Chilcoat,		Carper,	Witmer,
Wright,		Grove,	Reichard,
Cullings,		Hauver,	Loughridge,
Heath,		Wolfe,	Corby,
Toadvine,		Silver,	Hall,
Wilson, of	Som.,	Whitby, Partridge,	Tower,
Daniel,		Frey,
Dail,	Smith, of Balt, city,	Brown,
Frazier,	Abbott,	Buffington—46.
Scott,
		Negative—None;

The said bill was then sent to the Senate.                           

The House took up

A bill entitled an act to permit persons to whom free negroes
or mulatto apprentices are bound in Worcester county to hire them
out.

Mr. Parker offered the following amendment:             

Strike out all of section 1st after the word "do" in the sixth
line and add the following section:                         

Section 2nd. And be it enacted, That the Orphan's Court of
Worcester county, shall not permit of authorize the master, mis-