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Mr. Morse (the rules being suspended,) submitted the fol-
lowing order:

Ordered, That James Pentland, of Baltimore city, have
leave of absence on Thursday,

Which was adopted.

John M. Carter, Esq., Secretary of State, delivered the
following message from his Excellency, the Governor :

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

ANNAPOLIS, January 22, 1868.
To the House of Delegates:

GENTLEMEN—I have this day signed and approved the fol-
lowing bills, received from your Honorable Body on the 21st
January instant, and transmitted the same to the Clerk of
the Court of Appeals, in accordance with the provisions of
section 17, Article 2, and section 30, Article 3, of the Con-
stitution, viz :

An Act entitled an Act to repeal sections 54, 55, 56 and
57 of Article 21 of the Code of Public Local Laws, relating
to the Circuit Court for Washington county, and the manner
and times of holding the terms thereof, and to re-enact the
same with amendments.

An Act entitled an Act to amend the 4th section of the
Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the
January session, 1864, chapter 29, entitled an Act to incor-
porate the Kent County Railroad Company, passed on the
8th day of March, 1856, chapter 148, to add four sections
thereto, and to appoint four new Commissioners in the place
of four deceased Commissioners.

An Act to repeal the 53d, 54th, 55th, 56th and 57th sec-
tions of Article 19 of the Public Local Law of Somerset
county, relating to fences.

An Act entitled an Act to repeal section 40 of Article 11
of the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "Frederick
county," and to re-enact the same with amendments.

THOMAS SWANN,

Governor.
Which was read.

Mr. Keech, Chairman of the Committee on Pensions, sub-
mitted the following

REPORT.
To the Honorable the Speaker of the House of Delegates :

the Committee on Pensions, to whom leave was granted

to report a bill to give all the soldiers or widows of the war

of 1812 and 1814 eighty dollars per annum," by an order of