1870.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 587

The following message was received from his Excellency,
the Governor, per hands of Richard C. Hollyday, Esq., Secre-
tary of State:

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Annapolis, Mar. 3, 187$.

Gentlemen of the House of Delegates of Maryland:

According to the requirements of the Constitution, I have
feigned and sealed and transmitted to the Clerk of the Court
of Appeals, the laws of the present session, whose titles are
enumerated on the accompanying list.

ODEN BOWIE.

An Act to repeal and re-enact with amendments, section
one hundred and twenty, Article thirty, Public General
Laws, entitled "Crimes and Punishments," sub-title "Riv-
ers."

An Act to incorporate the Antietain Railroad Company in
Washington county.

An Act for the protection of Fish and Terrapins in the
tributaries of the .Potomac river, lying in Saint Mary's
county, and to regulate the time and manner of catching and
taking Fish and Terrapins in that portion of the Potomac
river between Cobb Point, in Charles county, and Point
Lookout, in Saint Mary's county.

An Act to appropriate the sums of money therein men-
tioned to pay the claims of the State Reporter and J. Mur-
phy & Co.

An Act to empower the Commissioners of Wicomico
county to appoint an additional Constable in Sharptown dis-
trict, No. 10, of said county.

An Act regulating fences in Lake's, Straight's and Draw-
bridge districts of Dorchester county.

An Act to incorporate Mount Hope Retreat, in Baltimore
county.

An Act to add an additional section to an Act passed De-
cember session, 1849, chapter 3?7, entitled " an Act to in-
corporate a company to make a turnpike road from Williams-
port, in Washington county, to the Pennsylvania line in the
direction of Greencastle, in Franklin county, State of Penn-
sylvania."

An Act to enable certain alien heirs of William Dalzell,
late of Montgomery county, deceased, to take by descent cer-
tain lands lying In Montgomery county, of which the said
William Dalzell died seized and possessed.