1870.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 141

An Act to authorize the Register of Wills for Howard
county to examine, perfect and index certain Records in hi&
office, and to authorize and provide compensation for services
so rendered.

On motion of Mr. Blake,

At 2 o'clock, P. M., the House adjourned until to-morrow-
morning at 11 o'clock.

WEDNESDAY, January 26, 1870.

The House met and was opened with prayer by the Rev.
Mr. Henderson.

Present at the call of the roll the following members .

Messrs. Latrobe, (Speaker,) Loker, Martin, Wilmer, Kil-
bourn, Baldwin, of Anne Arundel, Wells, Owings, Duke,
Mitchell, Chapman, Carroll, Cameron, Shipley, Gatch,
Choate, Turner, Hammond, Hardcastle, of Talbot, Brattan,
Lankford, Woolford, Meekins, Touchstone, Owens, Richards,
Biddle, Marbury, Wootton, Duvall, Thomas, of Q. A. ,
Thomas, of Frederick, Bowlus, McCreery, Ritter, Harris,
Ady, Baldwin, of Harford, Streett, Hopkins, Hardcastle, ot
Caroline, Garey, Sanner, Hamilton, Cooper, Morse, Blake,
Webb, Wiley, McLane, Colton, Kirk, Ehlen, Gardner,
Markland, Marshall. Hoblitzell, Neill, Welty, Murdock,
Sword, Seibert, Hilton, Watkins, Kean, Wilson, of Allegany,
Standish, Myers, Percy, Shower, Jordan, Winter, Crouse,
Merrick, German, Crawford, Gordy—77.

The Speaker laid before the House the following Report of
the Clerk of the County Commissioners of Cecil county in
response to an order of the House :

ELKTON, CECIL COUNTY,

January 25, 1870.
To the House of Delegates of Maryland:

Agreeable to a resolution passed by your Honorable Body,
on the 20th instant, I herewith transmit to you the follow-
ing Statement'of Accounts, included in the Levy for the year
1869, as follows:

Amos Alexander, Sheriff, acct.......................... $2,451 94

David Scott, Clerk Circuit Court..................... 1,300 04

R. D. Jamar, Register of Wills ....................... 357 71

Noble T. Biddle, State's Attorney ..................... 886 62