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empower the county commissioners of Washington county to
lay off a new election district in said county, to be composed
of parts of election districts Nos. 7 and 9, in said county,
to cause the polls thereof to he held at Ringgold;

Was reconsidered.                                                     

Mr. Freaner proposed the following as a substitute for the
title:

"An act to amend the twenty-first section of the code of
public local laws, relating to election districts in Washington
county, by adding thereto the following sections;"

Which was adopted.

Mr. Medders, from a select committee, reported favorably
on the bill entitled, an act to authorise and empower the Cir-
cuit court of Kent county to receive and entertain a petition
from Daniel Jones, of said county, to divide the real estate
of the said Daniel Jones, and Catharine Jones, deceased, to
appoint five commissioners to make such division, with full
powers to make such divisions, and return their proceedings
to the said court, which shall confirm or reject the same as to
justice and equity may appear;

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Maxwell, from the committee on Corporations, report-
ed favorably on the bill entitled, an act to incorporate the
Westminster Savings Institution;

Which was read the second time.

Mr. Stake, from a select committee, reported favorably on
the bill entitled, an act to authorise Samuel S. Cunningham,
of Washington county, to bring certain negro boys into this
State;

Which was read the first time, and by a special order a
second and third time, and passed by yeas and nays as fol-
low:

	Affirmative.
Messrs.	Keene,	Straughn,
Kilbourn, Speaker	Wilson, of Cecil,	Booze,
Rasin,	Maxwell,	Berry,
Medders,	Miller,	Eakle,
Parran,	Jones, P. George's	Freaner,
Compton,	Legg,	Stake,
Ford,	Starkey,	Griffith,
Worthington,	Landing,	Harding,
Denison, Balt. co.,	Kessler,	Beall,