1084 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 29,

TUESDAY, March 29, 1870.

The House met and was opened with prayer by the Rev.
Dr. Edwards.

Present at the call of the roll, the following members :

Messrs. Latrobe, (Speaker,) Loker, Martin, Beck, Wilmer,
Kilbourn, Baldwin, of Anne Arundel, Wells, Owings, Duke,
Mitchell, Chapman, Carroll, Cameron, Shipley, Gatch,
Choate, Turner, Hammond, Hardcastle, of Talbot, Lank-
ford, Harriugton, Woolford, Meekins, Touchstone, Owens,
Richards, Biddle, Marbury, DuvalJ, Thomas, of Queen
Anne's, Brown, Dennis, Purnell, Thomas, of Frederick,
Bowlus, McCreery, Ritter, White, Harris, Ady, Hopkins,
Hardcastle, of Caroline, Garey, Sanner, Hamilton, Cooper,
Morse, Blake, Webb, Wilson, of Baltimore city, Wiley,
McLane, Colton, Kirk, Collins, Ehlen, Gardner, Markland,
Marshall, Hoblitzell, Neill, Murdock, Sword, Seibert, Hil-
ton, Watkins, Kean, Wilson, of Allegany, Standish, Myers,
Percy, Shower, Jordan, Crouse, Merrick, Crawford, Gor-
dy—78.

The Speaker laid before the House the following communi-
cation from N. H. Morrison, Esq., Provost of the Peabody
Institute, Baltimore, enclosing a communication from Dr.
Wm. B. Carpenter, on the culture and preservation of the
Oyster.

[See Document A. A.]
Which were severally read and ordered to be printed.

Mr Harrington presented the petition of M. T. R. Fooks
and others, of Dorchester county, praying a pension for
Clement Hurley, a soldier of the war of 1812.

Which was read and referred to the Committee on Pen-
sions.

Mr. Mitchell, Chairman of the Committee on the Judici-
ary, reported the following Joint Resolution, authorizing
the State Librarian to subscribe for two hundred and fifty
copies of Cohen & Campbell's Digest of the Decisions of the
Court of Appeals: