766             JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS              [Mar. 8,

Also, on a bill entitled, an act to refund certain taxes over-paid
by Wm. Torbet, Henry S. Stites, and Richard A. Foard, of Cecil
county.                                                                                       

Mr. Frazier moved to allow each county to take up two bills;
Which was adopted.

A bill entitled, an act to extend the provisions of an act passed
at the January session 1854, chapter 273, entitled, an act to pro-
vide a remedy against free negroes who may hire for a stipulated
period to any person, and quit the service of such person after
entering on the same and to provide a remedy against persons
who may employ such free negroes with the knowledge that they
had previously hired to another, or engaged in another's ser-
vice;

Was read the third time and passed by yeas and nays as fol-
lows:

	Affirmative.
Messrs. Speaker,	Daniel,	Stack,
Harris,	Dail,	Smith of Balt, city,
Griffith,	Frazier,	Abbott,
Dorsey,	Scott,	Valiant,
Neff,	Miller,	Lester,
Waters,	Brooke,	Hugg,
Wilson, of Calvert,	Bowie,	Askew,
Dowell,	Goldsborough,	Harrington,
Stone,	Rolph,	Witmer,
Merrick,	Parker,	Reichard,
Chilcoat,	Timmons,	Loughridge,
Rankin,	Smith, of Wor.	Corby,
Wright,	Davis,	Harding,
Cullings,	Carper,	Hall,
Heath,	Grove,	Tower,
Clark,	Hauver,	Brown,
Roberts,	Wolfe,	Smith, of Carroll,
Toadvine,	Duvall,	Buffington,
Lawson,	Jarrett,	Stewart—59.
Wilson, of Som.	Whitby,
	Negative—None.

The said bill was then returned to the Senate.

A bill entitled, an act to authorise the New Castle and French-
town Turnpike and Railroad Company to abandon that portion
of said Railroad lying in the State of Maryland, and to use the
materials in the construction of the Elkton and Sassafras River
Railroad; also to allow said Company to run their boats from
Sassafras river to Baltimore;