1874.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 293

Also,

Leave was granted to the Committee on Corporations to
report a bill entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act
to incorporate "The Bachman Valley Kail Koad Company,"
passed at January session, 1870, authorizing and empower-
ing the President and Directors of said Company, or a
majority of them, to issue the bonds of the said Company
to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars.

On motion of Mr. Merritt,

Leave was granted to the Kent delegation and Mr. Thomp-
son, to introduce a billto re-district Kent county.

On motion of Mr. Robinson,

Leave was granted to the Committee on Claims to intro-
duce a bill to pay L. F. Colton & Co., for publishing list of
defaulters.

On motion of Mr. Hodson,

Leave was granted to the Committee on Claims to intro-
duce a bill authorizing the Committee on Claims to pay to
Clement Sullivane, editor of the "Cambrige Chronicle,"
two hundred and thirty-seven dollars; the above sum being
due said Sullivane for printing, by direction of the Comp-
troller of the Treasury, the list of defaulters to the State.

On motion of Mr. Loane,

Leave was granted to the Committe on Ways and Means
to introduce a bill entitled an Act appropriating a sum of
money to pay for certain buildings in connection with the
Washington University, in the City of Baltimore, to make
further improvements thereon, and to provide for the free
education in said University of students from the several
Legislative Districts of this State.

Mr. Nutwell, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations,
reported favorably,

A bill entitled an Act for the relief of the Central Presby-
terian Church of the City of Baltimore, to authorize the re-
cording of certain amendments to the original plan, agree-
ment and regulation for the incorporation of said church,
adopted by the congregation thereof, on the 5th day of May,
A. D., 1856, and on the 30th day of March, A. D. 1857,
and giving said amendments and all Acts done in furtherance
thereof, the same force and validity as if said amendments
had been duly recorded within six months after the adoption
of the same.

Which was read a first time.

Mr. Gill moved that the rules be suspended, under the pro-
visions of the Constitution, section 27, Article 3, and that the
bill be read a second time this day.