956 JOURNAL OF P ROCEEDINGS [Mar. 16,

commissioner to examine into the accounts of the police offi-
cers of the city of Baltimore. We concur in yoar message,
haye receded from our amendment, and passed the bill with
your proposed amendment.

By order,

\. GASSAWAY,

Secretary.
Which was read.

Also, returned the bill entitled, an Act to provide fdr the
liquidation and settlement of arrearages of pay due to the
officers and men of the police force appointed and organized
under the Act of 1860, chapter 7 ;

Endorsed, "amendment receded from and passed by yeas
and nays."

Which was concurred in.

Also, a bill entitled, an Act to provide for the erection of
a monument over the remains of soldiers of the United
States Army, buried in Loudon Park Cemetery, in Baltimore
county;

Also, a bill entitled, an Act to appropriate a sum of money
to erect a monument over the remains of Francis S. Key, the
author of the "Star Spangled Banner ;"

Also, a bill entitled, an Act to amend an Act entitled, an
Act to encourage enlistments into the Maryland Regiments
in the service of the United States, passed 1864, chapter 15,
and to provide for the prompt payment of the bounties there-
in specified, and to repeal section 4 of said Act and to re-
enact the same so as to make the bounties therein specified
payable to the widows and heirs of deceased soldiers ;

Also, a bill entitled, an Act to appropriate the sum of four
thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars to purchase from
John Murphy, the publisher, two hundred and fifty copies of
the Code of Public General Laws and Public Local Laws,
and of the three volumes of supplements thereto, for the use
of the State Library ;

Mr. Clarke, Chairman of the Committee on Claims, re-
ported back the bill entitled, an Act to repeal sections 5 and
8 of the Act passed at the January session, 1864, chapter 15,
entitled, an Act to aid and encourage enlistments into the
Maryland Regiments in-service of the United States, and also
to repeal sections 4 and 5 of the Act passed at the January
session, 1865, chapter 33, entitled, an Act to provide bounty
for soldiers entering the service of the United States to fill
the quotas of Maryland under the call of the President of
the United States of December, 1864, and under future calls;

'Which, on motion of Mr. Clarke,

Was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.