“And interest, at the rate of six per cent, per annum, commencing from the end of the four years aforesaid, shall be charged on the whole of the six last payments, until the same shall be received into the public Treasury:”
The question was taken that the House do agree to the said amendment, and resolved in the affirmative—yeas 62, nays 44.
Ordered, That the said amendments, together with the bill, be read the third time to-day.
The said bill, together with the amendments thereto, was read the third time; and, on the question that the bill, as amended, do pass, it passed in the negative—yeas 46, nays 46.
Mr. Speaker declaring himself with the nays. And so the said bill was rejected.
Church in Georgetown.
Mr. Findlay called up the bill for incorporating the Presbyterian Society in Georgetown. The bill was long, and was read by sections. One section authorized a lottery for finishing the church.
Mr. Clark moved to strike out the section; you would not convert your church into a gambling house. I never considered that religion of the best kind which was supported by lotteries.
Mr. Sloan.—I am for striking out. I never will consent to an act authorizing public gambling.
Mr. Clark.—Corporations of all kinds, but more particularly ecclesiastical corporations, are objects of my particular hatred. Religion I do not consider of this world. I am no enemy to it, however; I adore it. To try the principle of the bill, I move to strike out the first section.