1850, to incorporate the Baltimore and Potomac Steamboat
Company, and to extend the charter of the same as amended.

Which was read the first time and referred to the Com-
mittee on Corporations.

A bill entitled an Act to appropriate the sum of money
therein mentioned to pay the claims of the State Reporter and
John Murphy & Co.

Which was read the first time and referred to the Commit-
tee on Finance.

A bill entitled an Act to repeal and re-enact with amend-
ments to section 170 to Article 30, to the Public General
Laws, entitled "Crimes and Punishments," sub-title "Riv-
ers."

Which was read the first time and referred to the Commit-
tee on Judicial Proceedings.

The Joint Resolutions in relation to the Island of Cuba,

Were read the second time and ordered to be engrossed for a
third reading.

The President announced the hour having arrived for
taking up the order of the day,

On motion by Mr. Carroll,
The order of the day was postponed for fifteen minutes.

Mr. Carroll, from the Committee appointed to attend the
funeral of the late George Peabody, submitted the following.

REPORT.

the Joint Committee appointed to attend in person the
obsequies of the late George Peabody, beg respectfully to
report to the General Assembly, that on Monday, January
31st, they assembled in Boston, and proceeded together, on
that day, to the City of Portland.

On arriving, they found that the City Authorities had
provided for them tickets of admission for the ceremonies of
the following day, and had assigned to the delegation a
proper place in the procession which was to do honor to the memory
of the distinguished dead.

On Tuesday, February 1st, at 9 o'clock, your Committee
assembled, by invitation, in the Council Chamber of the
Mayor, together with the officers of the English and Ameri-
can Navy, the Foreign Representatives, the Authorities of the
city and Governor of the State of Maine.

In due time the procession was formed and proceeded
through files of militia and guards of United States troops,