1856.]         OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.          551

A resolution authorising the Governor to furnish Dr. Freder-
ick Diffenback, of the Manchester Independent Academy with
sixty muskets, &c.

A resolution authorising the Adjutant General to furnish Cap-
tain Joseph H. Tucker, fifty muskets, from the quota due the
State from the General Government for the year 1850, &c, &c.

Severally endorsed "passed by yeas and nays."                 

A bill entitled, an act to provide and employ a special police
force in Kent county, by the county Commissioners, to guard the
county, arrest and secure all absconding slaves and suspicious
persons aiding, assisting or enticing slaves to abscond; to arrest
persons committing felony or misdemeanor, or in possession of
stolen property; to disperse disorderly or tumultuous meetings of
negroes; to seize guns illegally held, and to provide a compensa-
tion; also a reward to all persons who may arrest and secure a
a runaway slave, &c;

proposed amend-

Endorsed "passed by yeas and nays with the

ment "                                         

Amendment Proposed.                   

Insert in 2nd line of section 1st, after the word "county," the
following words, to wit: "may at their discretion," and strike
out the word "shall;"                                        

Amendment assented to by yeas and nays as follows:

	Affirmative.
Messrs. Speaker,	Stubbs,	Abbott,
Harris,	Miller,	Valiant,
Griffith,	Goldsborough,	Lester,
Neff,	Rolph,	Harrington,
Waters,	Parker,	Fiery,
Wilson, of Calvert,	Brengle,	Witmer,
Dowell,	Davis,	Loughridge,
Stone,	Carper,	Corby,
Merrick,	Grove,	Hall,
Heath,	Hauver,	Tower,
Lawson,	Wolfe,	Kildow,
Wilson, of Som.	Jarrett,	Frey,
Daniel,	Silver,	Brown,
Dail,	Whitby,	Smith, of Carroll
Frazier,	Stack,	Buffington,
Thomas,	Kennedy,	Rowles—50.
Scott,	Partridge,
Negative--None.