safety of those who have dealt with it, it is proper to make
the name as changed, effective in all its acts and contracts in
the past as well as the future.

Therefore, to remove doubts of the power of the Court to
change the name of a corporation, the bill changes the name
hereafter, and ratifies the change for the past.

The subject is only the change of name of the corporation.
There is no double subject. The division is not of subject, but
of time.

The difference between past anil future in the life of a thing
cannot make the thing two subjects in the sense of the Con-
stitution. The whole matter in the bill is the change of a
single name of a single corporation making the change effec-
tive from its organization forever.

For the foregoing reasons, the Committee of Conference
being of opinion that the bill is properly framed, the Com-
mittee on the part of the Senate recommend that the Senate
recede from its rejection of said bill and that they pass the
same as it came from the House. The members on the part
of the House, recommend that the House adhere to the bill
as passed.
ALFRED SPATES,
WM. WELCH.

On the part of the Senate.
WM. M. MERRICK,
A. KEAN.

On the part of the House..
Which was adopted.

Said bill was then read the second time.

The Senate bill entitled an Act to repeal section 29 of Ar-
ticle 5, of the Code of Public Local Laws, relating to the pay
of the Crier of the Circuit Court for Calvert county, and to
enact a substitute therefor,

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

The Senate bill entitled an Act to re-enact and continue in
force an Act passed at December session, 1847, chapter 306,
and to make certain amendments thereto,

Being upon its second reading,

Mr. Malone submitted the following amendment, entitled
an Act to incorporate the Withers' Mining Company.

Which was adopted.
The section as amended was then adopted.

Said bill as amended was then read the second time and
ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.