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meaner all malicious injury or waste done by tenants in pos-
session of any lands or tenements, after the writ of habere
facias possessionem has been sued out, and notice thereof has
been served upon the defendants or tenants, or after a sale
by any Sheriff of this State, prior to the passing of the
property so sold, whether real or personal, to the purchaser
thereof.

On motion by Mr. Parker, of Worcester,
Leave was granted to the Senators from Worcester, Wico-
mico and Somerset to introduce a bill entitled an Act to
secure the completion of the Worcester County Eail Road
Company.

Mr. Grove, from the Committee on Judicial Proceedings,
to which was recommitted the hill entitled an Act to repeal
chapter 153, passed January session, 1867, entitled an Act
to add an additional section to Article 30 of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws relating to crimes and punishments, and to
re-enact the same with amendments, reported the following
amendments:

Amend 8th line, add " or cut down a tree or destroy a."

Amend 10th line, add "and after presentment and in-
dictment by a Grand Jury and conviction ; " after the word
misdemeanor strike out word " and."

Amend 13th line, strike out " or Justice of the Peace."
Said bill was then read the second time.

Mr. Grove from the Committee on Judicial Proceedings,
reported a bill entitled an Act to authorize and empower the
Trustees of the camp-meeting property in Baltimore county
of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Great Falls Circuit to
sell and convey certain real estate in said county.

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Grove from the Committee on Judicial Proceedings
reported favorably the bill entitled an Act to make valid cer-
tain official acts of John Miller, as a Justice of the Peace
of the State of Maryland, in and for Somerset county.

Which was read the second time.

Mr. Grove, from the Committee on Judicial Proceedings,
reported a bill entitled an Act to repeal the 89th section of
Article 16, of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled
chancery, and relating to process against non-resident infant
defendants, as amended by the Act of 1864, chapter 89, and
to insert in said Article in lieu of the section so repealed, the
following section relating to process against non-resident in-
fant defendants.

Which was read the first time.