588              JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 24,

"Section 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the county commissioners of Baltimore county, to have this
act published in at least one newspaper printed in Baltimore
county, and in handbills to be set up at the most public
places in each election district in said county, at least thirty
days before the election, hereinafter provided for by the fourth
section of this act.

Section 4. And be it enacted, That in the month of No-
vember next, and on the same day that an election shall be
held in Baltimore county, for electors for President and Vice
President of the United States, the judges of election in each
election district of said county, shall cause a ballot-box to be
opened for the purpose, and every legally qualified voter in
said county shall express on his ballot in print or writing,
"for the additional levy," or "against the additional levy,"
as his choice may be, and the judges of the election shall
make the returns to the county commissioners, and it it shall
appear on comparing the votes, that a majority of the legal
votes cast at the said election, are for the additional levy,
then the provisions of this act shall go into effect in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and if a majority of the
legal votes cast at the said election are against the additional
levy, this act shall be null and void."

The yeas and nays were demanded, and appeared as follow:

	Affirmative.
Messrs. Ford,	Landing,	Brown—5.
Stanford,	Griffith,
	Negative.
Messrs.	Linthicum,	Wilson, of Har.,
Kilbourn, Speaker	Keene,	Bayless,
Durant,	Wilson, of Cecil,	Straughn,
Rasin,	Bryan,	Booze,
Welch,	Wootton,	McAllister,
Parran,	Jones, P. George's	Smith,
Worthington,	Kessler,	Denison, Balt city
Denison, Balt. co.	Claggett,.	Coudy,
Renshaw,	Routzahn,	Eakle,
Chaplain,	Salmon,	McCleary,
Lawson,	Naill,	Roop—32.

So the amendment was rejected.

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