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to introduce a bill to repeal chapter 355 of the Acts of 1872,
entitled an Act to authorize the issuing of licences to Tele-
graph and Transportation Companies, and Express Compa-
nies, &c, and to re-enact the same with amendments.

On motion of Mr. Henkle,

Leave was granted to the Anne Arundel delegation to in-
troduce a bill to approve an Act passed January session,
1872, chapter 245, entitled an Act to authorize the County
Commissioners of Anne Arundel county to subscribe to the
capital stock of the Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad Com-
pany, as provided by section 54 of Article 3 of the Constitu-
tion.

On motion of Mr. Etchison,

Leave was granted to the Prince George's delegation to in-
troduce a bill to amend or abolish the Local Law of Prince
George's county, imposing a tax on dogs.

Mr. Gill submitted the following Joint Resolutions:

WHEREAS, The State of Maryland has provided public
schools both in the counties and in the City of Baltimore,
for the education of colored children, wherever the same
could be maintained by an average attendance of not less
than fifteen scholars; which schools are subject to the same
rules and regulations, and furnish the same course of in-
struction as the other public schools in the same district in
which they may be situated.

And whereas, The State of Maryland has further pro-
vided a State Normal School for the education of colored
teachers, to supply teachers of the colored race to the present,
colored schools, and for such other colored schools as may
hereafter be organized; all of which has been done with a
liberal spirit and at considerable expense to the State.

And whereas, These schools have been provided by the
State at the request of the best and most intelligent portion
of our colored population, in their petitions to the General
Assembly of 1872, asking "for larger facilities for the ac-
quisition of a rudimental education," and praying not "that
the school for whites should be thrown open to their chil-
dren, which they say would be detrimental to their educa-
tional interest; but that a portion of the school fund, both
of the State and counties, should be applied to the main-
tainance of- their separate schools, where their children
might be gathered together upon a common level, and re-
ceive their educational training at the hands of teachers of
their own color."

And whereas, The present school system, with such addi-