478 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 20,

DEPARTMENT OP PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,

BALTIMORE, February 20, 1867.
HON. O. MILLER,

Speaker of House of Delegates:

SIR :—I respectfully ask the appointment of a Select Com-
mittee of the House, or that an order be passed directing the
Committee on Education to visit the State Normal School) lo-
cated in the city of Baltimore, to examine its work, report
its present condition and what is needed to make it thor-
oughly efficient in educating teachers for the Public Schools
of the State.

Very respectfully yours,

L. VAN BOKKELEN,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Winch were read and referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation.

Mr. Turner presented the petition of the citizens of Balti-
more in favor of the modification of the Sunday Law;

Which was read and referred to the Select Committee on
the Sunday Law.

On motion of Mr. Calvert,

The rules were suspended, "

And the House took up for consideration the Senate bill
entitled, an Act supplementary to an Act to incorporate the
Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River Tide Water Canal Com-
pany, passed at January session, 1866, chapter 173;

Which was then read a third time and passed by yeas and
nays as follow:

	AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs. Miller, (Speaker.) Morgan, Beck, Welch, Williams, Clarke, Cameron, Hutchins, Shipley, Nicolai, Dennis, Parsons, Phelps,	Linthicum, Gorsuch, Steiner, Bamford, Tobey, Hoffhine, Bishop, Burche, Turner, Coleman, Neilson, Smith, Flaherty, Robson,	Waltemeyer, Feig, Bixler, Pitts, Gordy, Nelson, Whiteford, Wilson, Spicer, McCulley, Bruce, McCulloh, Brydon, Carmichael,