1874.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 257

They also testify that it is impossible to name any specific
sum as the cost of an indefinite amount of work, and Mr.
Wiley, who was himself the Chairman of the House Commit-
tee on Printing in 1868, and consequently familiar with the
character and amount of work usually required, states posi-
tively that no one can do the entire work tor $20,000, as pro-
posed in one offer submitted to your Committee.

Your Committee, therefore, most respectfully present again
their original report, with the above explanations in regard
to its specific provisions, and the further explanation that the
page of the Journal or Documents shall consist of 1,450 ems,
and the page of the Laws shall consist of 1,600 ems, with
marginal notes, as estimated by regular printers' rules.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

Senate Committee:

DANIEL FIELDS,
J. K. LONGWELL,
ISAAC M. DENSON,
WILL. H. TUCK.

House Committee :

E. J. HENKLE,
H. VANDERFORD,
J. L. BEDSWORTH,
JNO. T. FLETCHALL,
JOHN S. SUDLER,
NATHAN GRAFTON.
Which vvas read, and,

On motion of Mr. Stewart, of Howard,
Concurred in, and,

On motion of Mr. Stewart,

The Report of the Committee submitted on the 29th ultimo,
Was then adopted.

Mr. McCosker, Chairman of the Committee on Insolven-
cy, to whom was referred the bill entitled an Act to render
inoperative in Allegany county the provisions of Article 48,
Code of Public General Laws, commonly called the "Insolvent
Laws," reported back the same and asked to be discharged
from the further consideration thereof, and moved that the
bill be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

The Committee was discharged, and the bill so referred.

Mr. Stewart, of Baltimore City, Chairman of the Commit-
tee on the Chesapeake Bay and its Tributaries, to whom was