1870.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 105

Your Committee desire to gtate to the General Assembly,
that if it shall be determined to advertise for proposals, it
will require ten days before proposals can be received and
contracts awarded; in the meantime, the printing matter
which has been already done, and for which there is no con-
tract or price set, must be paid for at the usual rate of such
work. There is now a considerable amount of printing mat-
ter accumulated, which has been ordered ; but your Commit-
tee cannot order the printing of such matter until authorized
by the General Assembly.

Your Committee, therefore, recommend the acceptance of
the proposition of Messrs. Thompson & Co., as it will be seen
that the proposal for doing the printing is $9,300 less than
the cost of doing the printing work of the session of 1868,
and is $31,400 less than the session of 1867. All of which
is respectfully submitted.

JAS. C. CLARKE,
Chairman Joint Com. on Printing.

JOHN F. WILEY,
Chairman House Com. on Printing.

Which was adopted.

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

Ordered, That Ron. Isaac D. Jones, Attorney General of
the State, be requested to give this House his opinion of the
legal right of the State to the one-fifth of the gross proceeds
from passengers on the Washington branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, under section 8, chapter 175, Act of 1832,
and the Acts of Assembly supplementary thereto.

Which was adopted.

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

Ordered, That Mr. White have leave of absence for four
days to visit home on important business.

Which was adopted.

Mr. Gorman, from the Committee on Roads and Highways,
reported favorably a bill entitled, an Act to provide for the
removal of gates from public roads in Caroline county and
public roads dividing said county from adjoining counties.

Which was read a first time.

Mr. Watkins, Chairman of a Select Committee reported fa-
vorably a bill, entitled an Act to declare the sanction of the
General Assembly of Maryland to the gift aud bequest of
Andrew Small, late of Washington city, deceased, to the
Board of Trustees of the Neelsville and Darnstown Presbv-