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

The bill entitled, an act amendatory of the act passed Jan-
uary session, 1856, chapter 353, entitled, an act to raise addi-
tional revenue to pay the debts of the State, by increasing the
rates of license to ordinary keepers and traders, allowing the
oath or affirmation of the applicant, required by the said
original act, to be made before a justice of the peace in the
several counties of this State ;

Being upon its second reading,

Mr. Stirling proposed the following as an additional section:

Section 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall not apply
to the city of Baltimore ;
Which was assented to ;

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

The hour having arrived for taking up the order of the
day, being the bill entitled, an act to simplify and regulate
Proceedings in Equity ;

Mr. Belt moved to make said bill the special order of the
day for Wednesday next;

Which was determined in the negative.

Mr. Alexander proposed the following amendment to the
15th section :

"Provided that alimony shall not be decreed to the wife
when her husband is divorced from her, for adultery, or for
illicit carnal intercourse with another man previous to mar-
riage, without the knowledge of the husband ;"

Which was not assented to.

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

On motion of Mr. Ford, of Baltimore county, the House
adjourned.