1856.]            OF THE HOUSE DELEGATES.               763

chard, Loughridge, Corby, Harding, Hall, Tower, Brown, Smith,
of Carroll, Buffington.

The Secretary of the Senate delivered the following mes-
sage:

                        By the Senate,

March 7th, 1856.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates:                   

We propose, with the concurrence of your honorable body, to
proceed, on the 8th day of March instant, at half past twelve
o'clock, to the election of a Keeper of the Records of the Court
of Chancery. We have nominated on the part of the Senate,
Lemuel Jones. We have appointed Messrs. McCullough and
Schley to join the gentlemen who may be appointed by your
honorable body to count the ballots and report the result.

               By order,

C. Harwood, Sec'y.
Mr. Askew offered the following message:

By the House of Delegates,             

March 8th, 1856.
Gentlemen of the Senate:

We have received the message of your honorable body, pro-
posing to proceed, on the 8th day of March, at half-past twelve
o'clock, to the election of a Keeper of the Records of Chancery,
and concur therein. We have nominated, on the part of the
House", Lemuel Jones, and have appointed Messrs. Frazier and
Brooke to join such persons as your honorable body have ap-
pointed, to count the votes and report the result.

By order,

Thomas H. Kent, of Jos., Clerk.

Which was read, assented to, and sent to the Senate.
' On motion of Mr. Daniel,

The rules were suspended to take up                                 

A bill entitled, an act to amend the act entitled, an act to es-
tablish a House of Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents, and the sup-
plements thereof, and to authorise the appointment of Managers
on the part of the State in said House, and to give to the Judges
of the Circuit Courts for the several counties of this State, the
power to order minors to be removed to and confined in the House
of Refuge, and to appropriate for the aid and benefit and support
of the House of Refuge, the annual sum of ten thousand dollars,
for five successive years;