762          JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS          [March 4,

The bill entitled, an act defining the power of the Court of
Appeals in certain cases;

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

The bill entitled, an act to provide for the instruction of
Indigent Blind persons, inhabitants of this State, and in aid
of the Maryland Institute, for the instruction of the blind;

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

On motion of Mr. Belt,

The bill entitled, an act to cede jurisdiction to the United
States, over land required by the Government thereof, under
the limits of this State, for purposes authorised by the con-
stitution and laws of the United States;

Was reconsidered to its second reading, when
Mr. Belt proposed the following amendment;

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That if at any time after the
passage of this act, the Congress of the United States, shall
pass any law abolishing within the jurisdiction of the same,
the relation of master and slave as it now exists in this State,
without the consent of this State, then from and after the pas-
sage of any such law by the Congress aforesaid, the jurisdic-
tion required by the United States, within the limits of this
State, over any part of the territories of the same, shall cease
and be utterly void and of none effect, and such jurisdiction
shall revert to the State.

The yeas and nays being demanded and appeared as fol-
low:

	Affirmative.
Messrs. Berry, Sp'r,	Sudler, of Som.	Bacon,
Morgan,	Tilghman, Dail,	Baker,
Neale,	McGonigal,
Wickes,	Richardson,	Rogers,
Meginnis,	Grieves,	Lynch, of B. city,
Mackubin,	Davis,	Crowley,
Kilbourn,	Kidd,	Forrest,
Griffiss,	Belt,	Alexander,
Magruder,	Wyville,	Duvall,
Burgess,	Contee,	Worthington,
Stonestreet,	Sudler, of Q. A.	Thruston,
Walker,	Spence,	Kilgour,
Allender,	Thomas,	Barnard,
Ford, of Balt. co.	Harding,	McKinstry,
Clarke,	Bowlus,	Rinedollar,