332 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 9,by and with the county road to Mason's Mills, thence by and
with the county road to a place known by the name of "Sheep
House," and thence in a direct course by survey to the line
of the State of Virginia. All voters residing south and west
of said dividing line to vote at Newtown in the first
election district of Worcester county, and all voters residing
north and east of said line to vote at Sandy Hill, in the
eighth election district of Worcester county. Which was read and adopted.
The section as amended was then read and adopted.
Said bill as amended was then read the second time. Mr. Malone, from the Committee on the Chesapeake Bay
and its tributaries, to whom the leave was granted, reported
a bill entitled an Act to incorporate the Salisbury Navigation
and Wharf Company, Which was read the first time. The Senate bill entitled an Act to appropriate a sum. of
money to provide a suitable portrait of the late Governor
Thomas G. Pratt, to be placed in the Executive Chamber, Was considered and postponed. Mr. Clarke, from the Committee on Corporations, to
whom was referred, the Senate bill entitled an Act to amend
the Act of 1865, chapter 70, entitled an Act to authorize the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to build a railroad
from a point on the line of its road. within the State of Mary-
land, between Knoxville and the Monocacy Junction, &c.,
reported it without amendment. Said bill was then read a second, time and. ordered to be en-
grossed for a third reading. The Senate bill entitled an Act to repeal section 26, of
Article 38, of the Code of Public General Laws, and to
enact the following in lieu thereof, Being on its second reading, was,
On motion by Mr. Fields.,
Postponed until Tuesday, the 15th inst.
By unanimous consent, Mr. Clarke presented the petition of Jacob Shamburger
and four hundred other citizens of Carroll and Baltimore
counties, asking the Legislature not to incorporate the Bach-
man Valley Railroad. Which was read and ordered to be spread upon the Jour-
nal.
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