1866.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.              847

Also, the bill entitled, an act to authorise the county commis-
sioners for Baltimore county, to issue the bonds for said county,
for the purpose of redeeming the stock of Baltimore city, held by
them for the use of said county, and by said county commission-
ers pledged in pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of
1854, chapter 144;

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

ments."

Amendments Proposed.                           

Strike out the preamble.                                            

Insert in the 7th line of section 1st, after the word "empow-
ered," the words "in their discretion; provided nevertheless, the
said county commissioners in their discretion, are hereby author-
ised to renew the aforesaid loan obtained from the Savings Bank
of Baltimore, in which event no funds shall be issued as provi-
ded for this act."                                                                                         

The question being,                                                                   

Will the House assent to the proposed amendments?           

It was determined in the affirmative by yeas and nays as fol-
lows:                                                                             

	Affirmative.
Messrs. Speaker	Thomas,	Stack,
Dorsey,	Scott	Smith of Bal. city,
Neff,	Stubbs	Abbott,
Waters,	Miller,	Valiant,
Wilson of Calvert,	Bowie	Lester,
Dowell,	Parker,	Askew,
Stone	Timmons,	Fiery
Chilcoat	Brengle,	Reichard
Heath,	Davis	Loughridge
Clark,	Carper	Corby
Roberts	Grove	Harding,
Lawson	Hauver	Hall,
Wilson, of Som.	Wolfe,	Tower,
Daniel,	Duvall,	Brown,
Dail	Silver	Smith of Carroll
Frazier,	Whitby,	Buffington—48.
	Negative—None.

The Speaker delivered the following address:
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates :

Your kind action in my regard admonishes me of the fact that
our labors here, as a body, are about to cease, and that we are