1860.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.          367

favorably on the bill entitled, an act to authorise and direct
the State's Attorneys for Baltimore city, Baltimore county,
Anne Arundel county and Prince George's county, to insti-
tute proceedings to forfeit the charter of the president, mana-
gers and company of the Baltimore and Washington Turn-
pike Road;
Said bill being upon its second reading,

Mr. Quinlan proposed the following amendment:
"That this act shall not go into effect, until all arrearages
prescribed by the charter of said Washington Turnpike com-
pany, shall have failed;"

Which was rejected.

The said bill was then read the second time, and by special
order a third time, and passed by yeas and nays as follow :

	Affirmative.
Messrs.	Linthicum,	Straughn,
Kilbourn, Speaker	Keene,	Goldsborough,
Durant,	Holland,	Booze,
Morgan,	Wilson, of Cecil,	Berry,
Rasin,	Maxwell,	Crowley,
Medders,	Bryan,	McAllister,
Welch,	Jones, of P. G.	Smith,
Mackubin,	Legg,	Turner, Balt city,
Briscoe,	Starkey,	Denison, Balt. c'y,
Burgess,	Jacobs,	Coudy,
Ford,	Landing,	Eakle,
Worthington,	Dennis, of Wor.,	Freaner,
Denison, Balt. co.	Claggett,	Griffith,
Quinlan,	Routzahn,	Gordon,
Renshaw,	Johnson,	Beall,
Jones, of Talbot,	Salmon,	McCleary,
Chaplain,	Naill,	Roop,
Dennis, of Som.,	Wilson, of Har.,	Gorsuch,
Long,	McCoy,	Turner, How.--57.
Lawson,
	Negative—None.

The said bill was then sent to the Senate.

Mr. Jacobs, from the committee on Colored Population, re-
ported favorably on the bill entitled, an act to amend the 29th
section of the code of public general laws, which makes a
certain allowance to the widow of a decedent, by rendering
the same applicable to free negroes;

Which was read the first time.