exceeding two hundred dollars, upon the taxable property of
the citizens of said city, for the benefit and relief of the
poor thereof, to be by said Mayor and Council, distributed
among the poor, as their best judgment may indicate as
proper.

On motion by Mr. Wilson,

Leave was granted to Senators Wilson, Browne and Sny-
der, to introduce a bill, entitled, an Act to facilitate the ex-
amination of titles of lands in Prince George's county, by
authorizing the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said county
to make out general indices of the land and chattel records.

On motion by Mr. Henry,

Leave was granted to the Committee on Education to in-
troduce a bill to direct the payment to the Cambridge Female
Academy, of the sum of six hundred and ninety-five dol-
lars, arising from the sale of Choptank Indian Lands, in
Dorchester county, heretofore sold under the provisions of
the Act passed at January session, 1856, chapter 125, and
devoted to parposes of education in said county.

On motion by Mr. Henry,

Leave was granted to the Committee on Finance to
introduce a bill to amend and explain the Act pass-
ed at January session 1867, Chapter 255, entitled, ''an
Act to. authorize the payment to the Maryland and
Delaware Railroad Company, and to the Dorchester and Del-
aware Railroad Company of the sum of $13,000, applied to
the Choptank and Mispillion Railroad Company, by the Act
of 1860, Chapter 303, according to section three of said Act."

Mr. Carroll submitted the following message:

BY THE SENATE,

Jan'y 26,1870.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates :

The people of this State, profoundly impressed with the
great tribute about to be offered by England, France and Ame-
rica, at the obsequies of their late distinguished citizen,
George Peabody, earnestly desire to unite their voice with
those who mourn his loss, and to record the sentiment which
they feel of affectionate remembrance of his virtues, and of
the deepest admiration for his life.

Upon the long list of those whose career has been signal-
ized by unselfish sympathy with the sufferings of their fellow
men, his name will stand pre-eminent in history, and thanks
to the intelligence with which he disposed his charities gene-
rations yet unborn will learn to venerate his memory, and
will receive the practical benefits of his magnificent bounty. In