436 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 5,

Reported it without amendment,
It was then read the second time.

Mr. Earle, from the Committee on Finance, to which was
referred the House Rosolutions in favor of Thomas Wimsatt,
and Ellen Wimsatt;

Reported it with the following amendments:
AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

Strike out all after the word "Resolution," and add the
following in lieu thereof:

"In favor of Frances Wimsatt, Ellen Wimsatt and Nancy
Wiles, of Harford county.''

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Treasurer of Maryland be, and he is hereby directed on the
warrant of the Comptroller, to pay over to Francis Wimsatt
and Ellen Wimsatt, widows, respectively of Benedict and
James L. Wimsatt, and to Nancy Wiles, farmer widow of
Ephraim Gover Hopkins—soldiers of the War of 1812, each,
or to their order, in quarterly payments, the sum of eighty
dollars per year during their lives from the passage of this
resolution.

The resolution was then read the second time.

Mr. Maddox, from the Select Committee, reported a bill
entitled, an Act to authorize the commissioners of Charles
county to refund to the heirs of W. H. Williams, taxes paid
in error:

Which was read the first time

Mr. Compton, from the Committee on Education, reported
a bill entitled, an Act to repeal section four of chapter three
of the Act of 1865, chapter one hundred and sixty, en-
itled, "School House sites," and section 1 chapter 1, en-
titled, ''sources of income, of the Act of 1865, chapter 160,
entitled, an Act to add a new article to the Code of Public
General Laws, to be entitled, public instruction, providing a
uniform system of free public schools for the State of Mary-
land, and to repeal all existing laws inconsistent therewith,
and to re-enact the same with amendments.

Which was read the first time,

Mr. Trail, from the Committee on Education, to which
was referred the bill entitled, an Act for the benefit of the
Cambridge Female Academy;

Reported it without amendment,

The bill was then read the second time

The President announced the order of the day being,

The bill entitled, an Act to repeal the 4, 7, 15, 16, 20, 26,
213, 222, sections of the 4th article of the Code of
Public Local Laws, relating to the city of Baltimore, and to