1168 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 27,

FRIDAY, March 27, 8 o'clock, P. M.

The House met,

Present at the call of the roll the following members :
Messrs. Stewart, Speaker, Loker, Coad, Boyer, Beck,
Hammond, Iglehart, Bond, of Calvert, Dalrymple, Mitchell,
Chapman, Nicolai, Slingluff, Montague, Poteet, Holmes,
Biddison, Rose, Lowe, Corbin, Horsey, Stewart, of Dorches-
ter, Johnson, Davis. of Cecil, Touchstone, Richards, Mearns,
Keech, Guy, Williams, Sudler, Legg, Smith, of Worcester,
Albaugh, Dutrow, Wenner, Bowlus, Maynard, Byers, Silver,
Nelson, Vandiver, Brown, Moore, Hubbard, Sanner, Wents,
Rohb, Morse, Blake, Latrobe, Pentlancl, Smith, of Baltimore
city, Bond, of Baltimore city, Colton, Mullin, Chaisty, Mc-
Elroy, Harig, Markland, Coudy, Herbert, Rohrer, Seibert,
Riggs, Conley, MeCulloh, Kean, Devecmon, Trimble, Hall,
Davis, of Carroll, Jordan, Worthington, Clark, Jones, Fooks,
Hopkins—78.

Mr. Smith, of Worcester, Chairman of the Committee on
Printing, submitted the following

REPORT:

To the General Assembly of Maryland,

GENTLEMEN :—We herewith submit for your ratification,
by order of the Joint Committee on Printing, the terms of a
contract entered into by the Joint Committee on Printing,
with Win. Thompson of R. Public Printer, as follows, in
addition to all printing of Laws, Journal, Bills, Documents,
Constitutions, &c., &c., embracing all the German work, as
well as English, together with the binding of all documents
that have been printed and bound, and also to print and bind
with paper covers, for the use of the General Assembly
10,000 copies of the scholl bill, which shall he passed by the
present session of the Legislature ; also 1500 copies in pam-
phlet form of the bill passed, known as the Oyster Law ;
also 1000 copies of the laws yet to be done, for the gross sum
of forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars, ($48,500.) This
includes all printing of every kind and character, which has
been ordered by the General Assembly.

The Legislature will observe that the present session is ten
days longer than the last, that the hills introduced have been
much larger than heretofore, for instance the General Laws
of Corporation, School and Oyster Bill, &c.. &c.