1856.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES,             777

Which was determined in the negative.                     

So the bill was indefinitely postponed.                   

The hour of half-past 12 o'clock having arrived, the House
proceeded to the election of a keeper of the Chancery Re-
cords.

The roll was called, and it appeared that 57 members had vo-
ted, when the ballot-box was sealed and delivered by the Speak-
er into the hands of Messrs. Frazier and Brooke, tellers on the
part of the House, to join the gentlemen who had been appointed
on the part of the Senate, and the said tellers then proceeded to
the Senate Chamber for the purpose of counting the ballots.

After an absence of sometime, the tellers on the part of the
House returned and reported that with the tellers on the part of
the Senate, they had counted the ballots cast for the keeper of
the Chancery Records, and that Lemuel Jones had 55 votes,
Louis Gassaway 15 votes, and there were 6 blanks;

Whereupon, the Speaker declared that Lemuel Jones was duly
elected keeper of the Chancery Records, two years from the
10th of March, 1856.                                                              

On motion of Mr. Timmons,

The rules were suspended to allow him to report favorably on
a bill entitled, a supplement to an act entitled, an act to lay out
and locate a public road in Worcester county passed at January ses-
sion 1853, chapter 276.

Mr. Frazier moved that no member should speak more than
five minutes on a question, without the consent of the House;

Which was adopted.                   

The order of the day being                                                 

A bill entitled, a supplement to an act entitled, an act to au-
thorise the conduction of a Branch to the Liberty and Franklin
Plank or Turnpike Road, from Jameson's Mills; to change the
name of the same, and for other purposes;                                 

Was read the second time, and

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

	Affirmative.
Messrs. Speaker,	Brooke,	Smith, of Bal. city,
Plowden,	Bowie,	Abbott,
Dorsey,	Bowling,	Askew,
Neff,	Rolph,	Harrington,
Waters,	Parker,	Fiery,
Dowell,	Timmons,	Witmer,