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Which were adopted.

Said bill as amended was read the second time and ordered
to be engrossed for a third reading.

The President laid before the Senate the following Com-
munication :

BALTIMORE, February 12th, 1874.
To the Honorable

John Lee Carroll, President

of the Senate of Maryland:

SIR :—The Committee appointed at the meeting of the
citizens of Baltimore, held at the Concordia Hall oil the —
instant, in connection with the proposed celebration of the
one hundreth Anniversary of the Declaration of Indepen-
dance of the United States ; .adopted yesterday the following
Resolution :

Resolved, That the Chairman is requested to address the
President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
Delegates of Maryland, to ascertain whether it would be
agreable to the Legislature to hold a meeting, at which the
object's of the Centennial Anniversary would be explained by
General Hawley, the President of the Centennial Commis-
sion, and Colonel Boteler, a distinguished member thereof;
and, if so, that the Legislature be most respectfully requested
to name the time of meeting.

In performing the duty thus required of me, I may be per-
mitted to express the hope that the Legislature will afford
the opportunity to the distinguished gentlemen, here named,
of explaining at length an object which appeals to the
patriotic sympathies of every citizen of the Republic.

I have the honor to be,

Your obedient servant,

JNO. H. B. LATROBE,
Chairman of Committee of Citizens.
Which was read.

On motion by Mr. Earle,

The President, was authorized on the part of the Senate to
extend an invirtation to General Hewley and other distin-
guished members of the Centennial Commissioners to address
the members of the Legislature in the Hall of the House of
Delegates, on Wednesday next, at 7 1/2 o'clock P. M.

The Senate bill entitled "An Act to amend the XXIX.