1860.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.            855

                                                 Negative.

Messrs. Durant,                                Burgess—2.

The said bill was then sent to the Senate.

The Secretary of the Senate delivered the following mes-
sage:

By the Senate,

March 9th, 1860.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates :

We have received your message returning a Senate bill en-
titled, an act to add a new article to the code of public local
laws for St. Mary's, Calvert, Howard, Kent and Baltimore
counties, entitled, an act to appoint a Board of Commissioners
for the better regulation of the free colored population of said
counties, with certain amendments proposed by your honor-
able body. We respectfully ask your honorable body to re-
cede from the amendments by which Anne Arundel, Dorches-
ter and Caroline counties were inserted in said bill.

By order,

William Kilgour,

Secretary.
Mr. Morgan proposed the following :

By the House of Delegates,

March 9, 1860.
Gentlemen of the Senate :

We have received your message asking that the counties of
Anne Arundel, Dorchester and Caroline counties, be exempted
from the operation of the Senate bill to add a new article to
the code of public local laws for St. Mary's, Calvert and other
counties, and concur therein.

By order,

Milton Y. Kidd,

Chief Clerk.

Which was assented to and sent to the Senate;
Also, delivered the following :

By the Senate,

March 9, 1860.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates :

We propose, with the concurrence of your House, to ap-
point 2 o'clock, P. M., this day, for the election of three to-
bacco commissioners, as provided for by the bill just passed.