720 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 11,

Mr. Streett, Chairman of a Select Committee, (the rules
being suspended,) reported favorably,

A bill entitled an Act to authorize John H. Stokes, of Har-
ford county, surviving Trustee, to sell and convey a parcel
of land to the Trustees of Deer Creek Monthly Meeting of
Friends, for the use of their members, at Broad Creek Meet-
ing.

Which was read a first time.

Also favorably,

A bill entitled an Act to add the following sections to Ar-
ticle twelve, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Har-
ford County," sub-title "Sheriff," to come in after section
one hundred and thirty-six.

Which was read a first time.

Mr. Seibert, Chairman of a Select Committee, (the rules
being suspended,) reported unfavorably,

A bill entitled ati Act to repeal an Act passed at December
session, in the year A. D., 1832.

The unfavorable report was adopted.
Mr. Baldwin, of Harford, Chairman of a Select Commit-
tee, reported favorably,

The Senate bill entitled an Act to provide for the appoint-
ment of an additional Justice of the Peace in district No. 2,
(Hall's Cross Roads,) in Harford county.

Which was read a first time.

Mr. Neill, Chairman of a Select Committee, reported fa-
vorably,

The Senate bill entitled an Act to enlarge the powers

of the Qounty Commissioners of Washington county,
under Article twenty-one, of the Code of Public Local Laws,
entitled "Washington County," under the head of ''County
Commissioners," by adding thereto the following sections.

Mr. Marbury submitted the following message :

BY THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES,
Annapolis, March 2, 1870.
Gentlemen of the Senate :

You are hereby respectfully requested to return for the
further consideration of this House, the bill entitled an Act
to amend the Act of January session 1865, chapter 70, enti-
tled 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 Maryland, between Knoxville and

the Monocacy Junction, through Frederick and Montgomery