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parties to whom such commission may have been issued, shall
refuse or neglect to execute or return the same, according to
the exigency thereof, beyond a reasonable length of time,
to he judged of by the court issuing such commission, then."

The amendments were adopted, and

The bill, as amended, read a second time and ordered to
be engrossed for a third reading.

On motion of Mr. Brown.
The vote by which

The bill entitled an Act to repeal the charter or Act of in-
corporation of the Locust Point Steam Ferry Company of
Maryland was passed, yesterday,

Was reconsidered.

The question then recurring upon the passage of the bill.

On motion of Mr. Brown,

The vote by which the bill was passed to a third reading
Was reconsidered.

On motion of Mr. Brown,

The bill was then reccommitted to the Committee on Cor-
porations.

Mr. Mitchell, Chairman of the Committee on the Judi-
ciary, reported favorably

A bill entitled an Act to add an additional section to Ar-
ticle 30 of the Code of Public General Laws, sub-title Sab-
bath-breaking.

Which was read a first time.

Mr. Latrobe. from the Committee on Ways and Means, re-
ported favorably,

The Senate bill entitled an Act to exempt from taxation
the structure of the Maryland and Virginia Bridge Company
over the Potomac river, between Shepherdstown, West Vir-
ginia, and Washington county, Md., with proposed amend-
ment.

Amendment proposed :

Add at the end of line 6, section 1, the words "for ten
years from the date of the passage of this Act."

The amendment was adopted, and

The bill, as amended, read a second time and ordered to
he engrossed for a third reading.