552 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 1

A bill entitled, an act amendatory of the act to incorporate the
Bank of Commerce, passed January Session, 1854, chapter 235,
and to increase the capital stock of said Bank to one million dol-
lars;

Endorsed "passed by yeas and nays, with the proposed amend-
ment;"

Amendment Proposed:

''Strike out in section 8, line 23, all of said section from the
word acts;"

Amendment assented to by yeas and nays as follows:

	Affirmative.
Messrs. Speaker,	Thomas,		Kennedy,
Harris,	Scott,		Partridge,
Griffith,	Stubbs,		Abbott,
Neff,	Miller,		Valiant,
Waters,	Goldsborough,	Lester,
Wilson, of Calvert,	Rolph,		Harrington,
Dowell,	Parker,		Fiery,
Stone,	Brengle,		Witmer,
Rankin,	Davis,		Loughridge,
Cullings,	Carper,		Corby,
Heath,	Grove,		Tower,
Lawson,	Wolfe,		Kildow,
Wilson, of Som.,	Jarrett,		Frey,
Daniel,	Silver,		Brown,
Dail,	Whitby,		Smith, of Carroll,
Frazier,	Stack,		Buffington—48.
	Negative—None.

Resolution commendatory of Doctor Elisha Kent Kane and
the Arctic Expedition;

On motion, all after the word "that," in the first line of third
resolution, down to the word "the," in the third line of said reso-
lution was striken out;

Amendment concurred in.         

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

Endorsed passed by yeas and nays, with the proposed amend-
ments;"

Amendments Proposed.

1st. In the preamble strike out the words "to said places," and
insert instead the words "out of the State."