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THURSDAY, March 26th, 1874.

The House met and was opened with prayer by the Rev.
Mr. Hedges

Present at the call of the roll, the following members :

Messrs. Hines, (Speaker,) Bond, Colton, Merritt, Henkle,
Robinson, Nutwell, Bird, Turner, of Calvert, Lancaster,
Keecb, Buchanan, Matthews, Merryman, Turner, of Balt,
co., Banks, Seth, Valliant, Sudler, Coulbourn, Gordy, John-
son, Hodson, Turner, of Cecil, Mackey, Davis, Latchford,
Thompson, Kemp, Pruitt, Merrill, Koons, Miller, Lamar,
Nicodemus, Annan, Grafton, Lee, Riley, Dawson, Williams,
McCosker, Cooper, C. R. Hamilton, McWilliams, Foster,
Stay lor, Stewart, of Baltimore city, McAleese, Gill, Hart,
Loane, Greenfield, McColgan, Harig, Joyce, Groh, Fenton,
Berry, Grimes, Stake, Clark, Watkins, Fletchall, Wier,
Wack, Brace, Waters, Vanderford, Galt, Brown, Maclin,
Stewart, of Howard, Leonard, Glotfelty—73.

Mr. Johnson presented the petition of Geo. L. Stevens and
fifty other citizens of Dorchester county, on Local Option.

Which was read and referred to the Select Committee on
Temperance.

OFFICE OF THE

CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES,

March 26th, 1874.

The following Acts of Assembly were this day presented
to his Excellency, the Governor, for his approval:

No. 113. An Act entitled an additional supplement to an
Act entitled an Act to incorporate the Baltimore, Catons-
ville and Ellicott's Mills Passenger Railway Company, passed
at January session, eighteen hundred and sixty, chapter
thirty-four.

No. 114. An Act to authorize and empower the Archbish-
op of Baltimore to convey to the School Commissioners of
Dorchester county, and their successors, a certain parcel of
land, together with the buildings thereon, as also to author-
ize the School Commissioners of said county to receive a deed
therefor.

No. 115. An Act to prevent the killing or trapping of
grouse in Kent county until the twentieth day of October,
eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.

No. 116. An Act to repeal section twenty-five, of Article
thirteen, of the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "How-