1856.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.           757

Which was read the first time, and referred to Messrs. Frazier,
Thomas and Dail.

A bill entitled, an additional supplement to the act entitled, an .
act incorporating the Master and Wardens of Clinton Lodge, No.
83, of the free and accepted Masons, for the purposes therein
mentioned, passed at December session 1826, chapter 143;

Was read the first time, and referred to the Committee on
Corporations.

A bill entitled, an act to cure certain defects in sundry mortga-
ges and deeds, and bills of sale, executed by Commodore P.
Donoho to James R. Donoho and Joel Cornwell, of Dorchester
county;

Which was read the first time, and referred to the Committee
on Judiciary.

And returned a bill entitled, an act appropriating a sum of mo-
ney for the use of Joseph Stewart;

A bill entitled, an act to direct the payment of one half the ar-
rears of pension due by this State to the late John H. Stone of
the Revolutionary Army, at the time of his death, to Zepheniah
H. Turner, one of the heirs of said Stone, and the person legally
entitled to receive the same;

Severally endorsed "passed by yeas and nays."               

The order of the evening being

A bill entitled, an act entitled, an act for the purpose of aid-
ing the construction of a Railroad in Queen Anne's county, being
a supplement to an act entitled, an act for the promotion of In-
ternal Improvements, passed at December session, 1835, chapter
395.

Was read the second time; and

Three fourths of the members concurring, was read the third
time and rejected by yeas and nays as follows:

	Affirmative.
Messrs. Speaker,	Frazier,	Stack,
Griffith	Thomas,	Kennedy,
Dorsey,	Scott,	Smith, of Balt. city,
Waters	Stubbs,	Abbott,
Cullings	Miller,	Valiant,
Heath,	Goldsborough,	Lester,
Roberts,	Rolph,	Hugg,
Toadvine,	Parker	Askew,
Lawson,	Timmons,	Harrington,