1124 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [ Mar. 22

constitutional and extravigant, but was forced to do so in
order that the Government might be administered;
On motion of Mr. Spacer,

Ordered, that the Chief Clerk of the House distribute the
balance of the report of the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction as follows: One thousand copies to the State Super-
intendent's office; the remainder to be equally divided among
the Senators, Delegates, and the School Commissioners of the
several counties and the city of Baltimore; the whole to be
boxed at the bindery and shipped to the clerk of the Circuit
Court of the several counties and the city of Baltimore.
On motion of Mr. Jones,

Ordered, that the Secretary of the Senate be requested to
receive and apportion the report of the Committee on Federal
Relations, and such other documents as may have been or-
dered to be printed, and not ready for distribution before the
adjournment of the Legislature, among the Senators and
Delegates equally, and carefully pack up the same and direct
the number for each county to the clerk of the Circuit Court,
for the members of said counties respectively, and send the
same by express or such other conveyance as may be avail-
able, transportation to be paid in advance; and the Secretary
is requested to keep an account of his expenditures in the
execution of this order, and present the same to the next Le-
gislature, for payment, together with such reasonable com-
pensation as that Legislature may deem right and proper for
his said services; one-half of the numbers of the report of
Dr. Higgins to be delivered to him for distribution by him.

On motion of Mr. Gorsuch,

Ordered, that the passage of the Special Jury bill for the
counties of Frederick, Washington and Carroll, must of ne-
cessity exempt the Sheriff of said counties from taking the
oaths prescribed in sections five and six of Article eighty-
eight, of the Code of Public General Laws, under the title of
"Sheriff's oath of office and bond," for the very excellent
reason, that it is not proper to require the Sheriff to take an
oath that he'summoned as jurors, sober, intelligent and ju-
dicious persons, of good reputation and character for honesty
and impartiality, without hatred, malice, ill-will, fear, favor
or affection, when in fact, by an Act of the Legislature, the
duty of drawing and directing the summoning of jurors is
imposed upon another.

The Secretary of the Senate returned the bill entitled, an
Act incorporate the Elkton and Massey's Cross Roads Rail-
way Company;

Endorsed, "paseed by yeas and nays,with proposed amend-
ments."

Amendments concurred in,

And bill as amended passed by yeas and nays at follow;