552 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 25,

tide 82 of the Code of Public General Laws, relating to
riots, and to re-enact the same with amendments ;

Being upon its third reading,
On motion of Mr. Magruder,

The vote by which the bill was ordered to a third reading
was reconsidered ;

Said bill being then upon its second reading,

Mr. Magruder proposed the following amendment:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 2 of Article 82 of the Code of Public
General Laws relating to riots, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, No such liability shall be incurred by any
county, incorporated town . or city, unless the authori-
ties thereof shall have had good reason to believe that
such riot or tumultuous assemblage was about to take
place, or, having taken place, shall have had notice of the
same in time to prevent said injury or destruction, either by
its own police or with the aid of the citizens of such county,
town or city, it being the intention of this Article that no
such liability shall devolve on such county, town or city,
unless the authorities, having notice, have also the ability of
themselves, or with their own citizens, to prevent said in-
jury, that etc. read the words of section 1 in the bill ;

Which was adopted.

The bill, as amended was then postponed informally.

The bill entitled, an Act to alter and amend an Act to add
a new Article to the Code of Public General Laws to bei en-
titled Public Instruction, providing a uniform system of Free
Public Schools for the State of Maryland and to repeal all
existing laws inconsistent therewith at the January session
of 1865 ;

Was read a third time and passed by yeas and nays as fol-
low :

	AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs. Miller, Speaker, Morgan, Williams, Ford, Nicolai, Davis, of Charles, Thomas, Jones,	Steiner, Hoffhine, Hutton, Turner, Coleman, Neilson Smith, Flaherty, Robson,	Kraft, Boswell, Davis, of B. city, Waltemeyer, Feig, Bixler, Pitts, Nelson, Whiteford,