32 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 8,

of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the Janu-
ary Session, 1864, chapter 29, entitled, " An Act to repeal
the twelfth section of an Act to incorporate the Kent county
Rail Road Company, passed on the eighth day of March,
eighteen hundred and fifty-six, chapter one hundred and
forty-eight; to add four sections thereto, and to appoint four
new Commissioners in the place of four deceased Commis-
sioners.

Which was read the first time.

The Secretary of the Senate delivered the following mes-
sage:

BY THE SENATE,

January 7, 1868.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates :

We have received your message proposing that the Com-
mittees of the Senate and House on Public Buildings, confer
together with reference to the Executive Mansion, and
respectfully concur therein.

By order,

AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,

Secretary.
Also the following message :

BY THE SENATE,

January 8, 1868.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates :

We have received your message proposing to appoint a
joint committee of the two Houses, on that part of the Gov-
ernor's Message which refers to the Maryland Penitentiary,
and concur therein. We have named on the part of the
Senate, Messrs. Maddox, Snyder and Hammond, Committee.

By order,

AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,

Secretary.

Which was read.

Mr. Montague (the rules being suspended) submitted the
following order :

Ordered, That the Committee of Ways and Means be re-
quested to inquire into the expediency of requiring all foreign
insurance companies doing business in this State, to pay a
tax into the Treasury pro rata with the capital of the local
companies, and to make quarterly statements under oath of
their receipts ;

Which was adopted.

The Secretary of the Senate delivered the following :

A bill entitled an Act to repeal sections thirty-four,
thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven and thirty-eight of the
fourth Article of the Code of Public Local Laws relating to
the city of Baltimore, and to substitute in lieu of sections
thirty-four, thirty-five and thirty-seven, the following :