234             JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS          [Feb. 3,

Moore,	Baker,	McKinstry,
Sudler, of Som.	McGonigal,	Reindollar,
Tilghman,	Stirling,	Dorsey—48.

So the amendment was not assented to.

The said bill was then read the second time, and ordered
to be engrossed for a third reading.

The bill entitled, an act granting the leave of the Legisla-
ture to a bequest made in the last will and testament of Leah
Gale, late of Cecil county, deceased, for the support of a
minister of the Protestant Episcopal church, in St. Mark's
chapel in said county;

Was read the second time, and ordered to be engrossed for
a third reading.

The bill entitled, an act to lay out and establish a new
election district in Somerset county, out of Dame's Quarter
District No. 4, to be called Tangier district, or election dis-
trict No. 15;

Was read the second time, and ordered to be engrossed for
a third reading.

The bill entitled, an act to provide for and regulate the
registration of births, marriages and deaths in this State;

Being on its second reading:

Mr. Lynch, of Baltimore city, proposed the following
amendment;

In line 4, section 4, "strike out ten and insert 5;"
Which amendment was assented to.

Also proposed the following amendment:
At the end of section 6, add,

"For which he shall receive as compensation for every such
return the sum of 25 dollars;''
Pending the consideration thereof,

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

By the Senate:

February 3rd, 1858.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates:

We have received your message proposing to go into an
election of a State Treasurer to day at 2 o'clock, and concur
therein. We have nominated on the part of the Senate Den-
nis Claude and Edward Hammond, for that office.

We also concur with your honorable body in the proposi-
tion to proceed immediately after the election of a Treasurer