1874.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 275

The bill entitled an Act for the better protection of birds
in Wicomico county,

Was read a second time and ordered to be engrossed for a
third reading.

The bill entitled an Act to prevent the killing or trapping
of grouse in Kent county, until the twentieth day of October,
eighteen hundred and seventy-eight,

Was read a second time and ordered to be engrossed for a
third reading.

The bill entitled an Act to repeal sections 9 and 10, of
Article 1, of the Code of Public Local Laws, relating to Alle-
gany county, and to re-enact the said sections with amend-
ments,

Was read a second time and ordered to be engrossed for a
third reading.

The bill entitled an Act to repeal sections 54, 55, 56 and
57, of Article 21, of the Code of Public Local Laws, relating
to Washington county, and to re-enact said sections with
amendments,

Was read a second time and ordered to be engrossed for a
third reading.

The bill entitled an Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act
passed January session, 1872, chapter 44, entitled an Act to
repeal an Act passed January session, 1870, chapter 11, to
repeal section 204, of Article 21, of the Code of Public Local
Laws for Washington county, relating to Justices of the
Peace and Constables in said county, and to re-enact the
said Act of 1872, chapter 44, with amendments, and an addi-
tional provision in regard to Eegisters of Voters in said
county,

Was read a second time and ordered to be engrossed for
a third reading.

The bill entitled an Act to repeal section 1, of an Act
passed at the January session, 1872, chapter 131, entitled an
Act for the better protection of oysters, clams, terrapins and
fish, in the Synapuxent Bay and its tributaries, in Worces-
ter county, and to re-enact the same with amendments,

Was read a third time and passed by yeas and nays, as

follows :

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs.

Hines, Speaker, Lamar, Harig,
Colton, Nicodemus, Joyce,
Nutwell, Annan, Groh,
Bird, Grafton, Fenton,