696 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. [Mar. 9,

passing over this road for the purpose of going to or from a
funeral.

Which was adopted.

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

The time having arrived for taking up the order of the
day, the House proceeded to the consideration of

The bill entitled an Act to add a new Article to the Code
of Public General Laws, to be entitled " Public Education,"
providing a general system of Free Public Schools for the
State of Maryland, and to repeal all laws inconsistent there-
with.

Said hill being upon a second reading,
On motion of Mr. Pentland,

The rules were suspended, and the further consideration
of the bill postponed until one o'clock P. M.

Mr. Poteet, Chairman of the Committee on Roads and
Highways, reported favorably

A bill entitled an Act to repeal section 48 of Article 28, of
the Code of Public General Laws entitled County Commis-
sioners, under the head of "Bridges," and to re-enact the
same with amendments.

Which was read a first time.

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

A bill entitled an Act granting the assent of the Legisla-
ture to a bequest made in the last will and testament of Mar-
garet Dods, late of Carroll county, deceased, to the Pastor
of the Presbyterian Church in New Windsor, Carroll county.

Which was read, a first time.
Also,

A bill entitled an Act to repeal and re-enact with amend-
ments sections one, two, and four of Article sixty-five of the
Code of Public General Laws, entitled "negligence," and
relating to actions for injury to the person, or loss of life
occasioned by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of another.

Which was read a first time.
Also,

A bill entitled an Act to amend the thirty-first section of
Article twenty-four of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"conveyancing," sub-title mortgages, by adding thereto and
re-enacting as follows.