172 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 27,

The Secretary of the Senate delivered the following bills :

A bill entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled "An
Act to incorporate the Parkton and Manchester Railroad
Company," passed the January session, A. D., 1868.

Which was read a first time and referred to the Committee
on Corporations.

Also,

A bill entitled an Act to amend the Act of 1868, chapter
246, entitled "An Act to aid in the establishment of a hos-
pital in connection with the Washington University in Bal-
timore, and to appropriate money for the same.

Which was read a first time and referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means.

Also, returned

The bill entitled an Act to repeal and re-enact section 959,
of Article 4, of the Code of Public Local Laws to the city of
Baltimore, sub-title "Parks,"

Endorsed, "Passed by yeas and nays."

The Speaker announced that the House had disposed of all
the business upon the Speaker's desk.

Mr. Turner submitted the following

JOINT RESOLUTION.

WHEREAS, The present accommodations at the State Cattle
Scales are inadequate to the proper dispatch and require-
ments of the business now being done, therefore,

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint a
Committee, consisting of two competent persons, whose duty
it shall be to examine the property, condition of scales,
fencing, &c., &c., and report to the Governor what addi-
tional accommodations are needed at said scales, together
with the estimate of the cost of the same ; and upon the
receipt of the said report, the Governor shall transmit the
same to the General Assembly, with such recommendations
as in his judgment the interest of the State demands.

Which was read a first time,
And on motion of Mr. Turner,

Two-thirds of all the members present concurring, was
read a second time, and passed by yeas and nays, as follows :

		AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.		Touchstone,	Cooper,
Latrobe,	Speaker,	Owens,	Blake,
Martin ,		Richards,	McLane,