462               JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 17,

Welch,	Miller,	Smith,
Briscoe,	Jones, P. George's	Turner, Balt. city
Parran,	Starkey,	Denison, Bal. city
Compton,	Jacobs,	Coudy,
Burgess,	Landing,	Eakle,
Ford,	Dennis, of Wor ,	Stake,
Worthington,	Kessler,	Griffith,
Denison, Balt. co.,	Johnson,	Gordon,
Renshaw,	Salmon,	Barnard,
Jones, of Talbot,	Wilson, of Har.,	Roop,.
Chaplain,	Straughn,	Gorsuch
Dennis, of Som.,	Goldsborough,	Mills,
Long,	Krafft,	Turner, Howard,
Lawson,	Booze,	Brown—53.
	Negative—None.

The said bill was then sent to the Senate.

The Speaker laid before the House the following communi-
cation from Sprigg Harwood, the State Treasurer:

Treasury Department,

February 17, 1860.
To the Honorable,

Speaker of the House of Delegates,

Sir: In obedience to an order of the House of Delegates,
of the 10th instant, I herewith transmit all the returns found
in this office, embracing the last five years, made by officers
of the State, under the first section of the tenth article of the
Constitution.

1 am, very respectfully,

SPRIGG HARWOOD,

Treasurer of Maryland.

Also, the following communication from William H. Pur-
nell, Comptroller:

To the, Honorable.

The House of Delegates of Maryland:

In compliance with the order of your honorable body of the
15th ult., "that the Comptroller be directed to furnish this
House, as early as practicable, with a statement showing the
amount of State tax levied and paid into the State Treasury