876 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 18,

Pending the consideration whereof,
On motion of Mr. Watkins,

The further consideration thereof was postponed, and said
bill referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

The bill entitled an Act to amend Article 10, of the Code
of Public General Laws of this State, relating to Attach-
ments, by adding theretj an additional section, relating to
the attachments of the property and credits of non-residents
of this State,

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

And, on motion of Mr. Stewart, of Baltimore City,
Was recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary,

Hon. Richard C. Hollyday, Secretary of State, delivered
the following message from his Excellency, Gov. James
Black Groome, together with the bill named therein:

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Annapolis, March 17th, 1874.
To the House of Delegates:

I respectfully return, without my approval, House Bill No.
88, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Farmers' Manufac-
turing Company of New Market."

In a message to the Senate returning Senate Bill No. 69,
entitled "An Act to incorporate the Frederick City Super-
phosphate Manufacturing Company," with objections, (which
message can be found upon the Senate Journal, page 598,
&c.,) I briefly alladed to the evils of special legislation and
the reasons which caused the framers of the Constitution of
1867 to insert in that instrument this provision: "Corpora-
tions may be formed under General Laws, but shall not be
created by special Act, except for municipal purposes, and
except in cases where no general laws exist providing for the
creation of corporations of the same general character as the
corporation proposed to he created; and any Act of incorpora-
tion passed in violation of this section, shall be void.—(See
Article 3, Section 48 )

Chapter 471, of the Acts of 1868, supplied the General
Law under which, in accordance with the provisions of sec-
tion 48, of Article 3, of the Constitution, just quoted, corpo-
rations of the same general character as those provided for in
said Act must be created.

Section 19, of said Act, specifies as among the corporations
to be created under the provisions of said General Law, those