334 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 12,

BY THE SENATE,

February 11, 1870.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates :
We have received your message proposing the appointment

of a Committee of Conference, to consist of three on the part
of the House and two on the part of the Senate, to confer on
the proposed Senate amendments to House bill, entitled an
Act to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 170 ot
Article 30 of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled

"Crimes and Punishments," sub-title "Rivers," and concur
"therein,

We have appointed on the part of the Senate, Messrs.
Timmons and Miller.

By order,

AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,

Secretary.

Also, returned the following House bill:

A bill entitled an Act to authorize the Mayor and City

•Council of Baltimore to endorse the mortgage bonds of the
Western Maryland Railroad Company to the amount of four-
teen hundred thousand dollars, as provided by an ordinance
of the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, entitled

an ordinance to authorize the endorsement or guarantee by
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore of the Mortgage
Bonds of the Western Maryland Railroad Company, and to
provide a sinking fund in connection therewith. Approved
January 26th, 1870

Endorsed, "Passed by yeas and nays."

Mr. Mitchell, Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary,
to whom had been referred the message of the Executive in
reference to a refusal of the Governors of New York and
Pennsylvania to deliver up fugitives from justice, together

•with accompanying documents, reported back the same, and
asked to be discharged from the further consideration thereof,
and that the same be referred to the Committee on Federal
Relations.

The Committee were discharged, and the message with
accompanying documents so referred.

Mr. Mitchell, Chairman of the Committee on the Judi-
ciary, to whom had been referred the leave to introduce
bill entitled, an Act to repeal sections 138, 391 and 2,
of chapter 413, passed January session, 1868, entitled,
an Act to repeal sections one, 37, 58, 39, 40, and two,
of chapter 252, of the Laws of Maryland, passed Janu-
ary session, 1867, entitled an Act to repeal the 37th,