INDEX.                        953

PUBLIC PROPERTY--

Order adopted, appointing a committee to enquire
whether any action or legislation be required for the
preservation, repair, &c, 128; bill reported, 250; bill
amended, 357; bill rejected, 369.

A bill reported for the preservation, security and
keeping in order of the public buildings and the cus-
tody of the fire apparatus, and appropriating a sum
of money therefor, 670; bill passed and sent to the
Senate, 670; returned, passed by the Senate.

A bill reported entitled, an act for filing, transcri-
bing and preserving the public records now in the
State House at Annapolis, 419.

PUBLIC PRINTING—Order appointing Thomas J. Wilson the
printer to the House of Delegates, &c, rejected, 7.
                Order that the bills of a general character shall be

printed, 19; amendment offered and adopted, 20; re-
considered, 33; substitute offered, ib.; rejected, ib.;
original order adopted, ib.

A message from the Senate, proposing to consti-

tute the standing committees on printing of the two

Houses, a joint committee to contract for the print-

ing of the laws, 87; message in reply, 88.

Order adopted, that the committee on printing in-
quire into the reasons why the Comptroller's report

and the report of the Agricultural Chemist have not
been distributed, &c, 117, 118; communication from,

             in reply, 160.

                   Report of the committee on Printing, 301; report

adopted, 302.                                                                         

Report of the joint committee on printing, 773,
774; report adopted, 774.

                                         Q.

QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY—Leave given to bring in a bill in
favor of the commissioners of the tax of, 19; bill re-
ported, 25; bill passed, 43; passed by the Senate,

               87.