1860.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.           893

	Affirmative.
Messrs.	Quinlan,	Kessler,
Kilbourn, Speaker	Renshaw,	Johnson,
Durant,	Jones, of Talbot,	Salmon,
Morgan,	Chaplain,	Goldsborough.
Rasin,	Linthicum,	Coudy,
Welch,	Holland,	Eakle,
Mackubin,	Maxwell,	Brining,
Briscoe,	Miller,	Griffith,
Parran,	Bryan,	Harding,
Compton,	Jones, of P. G.,	Gordon,
Burgess, Ford,	Legg,	Barnard,
Starkey,	Mills,
Worthington,	Jacobs,	Turner, Howard,
Denison, Balt. co.	Dennis, of Wor..	Brown—41.
	Negative.
Messrs. Stanford,	Claggett,	Naill,
Keene,	Routzahn,	Straughn—6.

So the report and resolutions were adopted, and
The late acting delegation from Baltimore city left the hall
of the House.
Mr. Dennis, of Somerset, offered the following :

March 10, 1860.

This House having refused, by a vote of the majority of the
members thereof, to permit the testimony taken in the con-
tested election cases from Baltimore city to be read, in viola-
tion, as they believe, of a solemn rule of this House, and
having proceeded to vote upon and determine said cases, the
undersigned refuse to vote, and ask that this protest be en-
tered on the Journal.

JAMES U. DENNIS,

ANDREW K. STAKE,

AZA BEALL,

R. B. McCOY,

JOSHUA WILSON,

W. F. BAYLESS,

D. W. McCLEARY,

DAVID ROOP, of Abraham,

A. MEDDERS,

ALEX. WILSON,

J. W. GORSUCH,

J. H. W. STANFORD.