Browne, Malone,
Earle, Parker,
Fields, Sellman,
Henry, Snyder,
Hyland, Stephenson,
Jump, Timmons,
Kimmel, Wilson—16.

NEGATIVE—None.

Said bill was then returned to the House of Delegates.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates returned the follow-
ing Senate bills:

A Senate bill entitled an Act to pay M. A. Newell the
sum of six hundred and twenty dollars for clerical assistance
hired by him to aid in preparing two annual reports upon
the condition of the public schools of the State.

Reconsidered and rejected for want of a constitutional
majority by yeas and nays.

A bill entitled an Act to protect birds of every description,
in the county of Washington, excepting owls, hawks, doves,
wild pigeons, woodcock, jacksnipe and reed birds, with the
following proposed amendments:

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

Strike out all after the word "Bill," and insert entitled an
Act to provide for the protection of birds, in Washington
county.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That no person shall trap, shoot, or in any manner
catch, kill or wound any bird or birds, or wild fowl of any
kind or description whatever, inwashington county, except
hawks, owls, wild ducks, wild pigeons, jacksnipe, plover,
sand pipers, reed birds, cedar birds and rails ; provided how-
ever, that it shall be lawful to shoot woodcock between the
twentieth day of June, and the thirty-first day of December
in each year; pheasants, bull-bats or night hawks and doves,
between the twelfth day of August, and the thirty-first day
of December; wild turkeys between the first day of Novem-
ber, and the first day of the ensuing March, and partridges
from and after the twentieth day of October, in the year
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, until the thirty-first day
of December next ensuing, and between the twentieth day of
October, and the thirty-first day of December, annually
thereafter.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted. That any person or persons,
violating the preceding section shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and on conviction thereof, in the Circuit Court for