768 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 13,

Also, without amendments,

The Senate bill entitled an Act to incorporate the Trustees
of the Synod of the Potomac, of the Reformed Church in the
United States.

Which was read a second time.

Mr. Watkins, Chairman of the Committee on Ways and
Means, reported without amendments,

The Senate bill entitled an Act supplementary to an Act
entitled an Act to incorporate the Maryland Institution for
the Instruction of the Blind, passed May 19th, 1853.

Which was read a second time.
Also, without amendments,

The Senate bill entitled an Act to appropriate a sum of
money to enable the Directors of the Maryland Institution
for the Instruction of the Blind, to pay off an indebtedness
against that Institution.

Which was read a second time.
Also, unfavorably, on

The Senate bill entitled an Act relating to the Weigher of
Hay and Straw, at Canton, in Baltimore county.

The unfavorable report was adopted.

Also, unfavorably, on

The Senate bill entitled an Act to appropriate the sum of
fifteen hundred dollars for refurnishing the rooms of the
Court of Appeals of Maryland.

The unfavorable report was adopted.
Also,

The Senate bill entitled an Act for the support and treat-
ment of indigent patients in the Baltimore Eye and Ear In-
stitute of Baltimore City, and the Maryland Eye and Ear
Institute, with proposed amendments.

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

In line 2, section 1, strike out "fifteen hundred," and in-
sert "one thousand."

In line 4, section 1, strike out "fifteen hundred," and in-
sert "one thousand."

The proposed amendments were severally read and adopted,
and the bill, as amended, read a second time.

Mr. Clark, Chairman of the Committee on Pensions, re-
ported favorably,