34 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 15,

Mr. Steiner, from a Select Committee, to which leave had
been granted, reported a bill entitled, "An Act to confirm
and approve an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland,
passed at January Session, 1872, Chapter 4, entitled, an Act
authorizing the County Commissioners for Frederick county,
to subscribe to the capital stock of the Liberty and Frederick
Turnpike Road Company of Frederick county."

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Phelps, from a Select Committee, to which leave had
been granted, reported a bill entitled, "An Act to incorpo-
rate the Bank in Cambridge, in Dorchester county, Maryland.

Whi«h was read the first time, and

On motion by Mr. Fields,
Ordered to be printed.

Senate Joint Resolutions instructing our Senators and re-
questing our Representatives in Congress to submit to their
respective Houses a memorial and protest against the passage
of the Supplemental Civil Rights Bill now before Congress,

Being on their second reading,

Mr. Steiner submitted the following amendment:

Strike out all after the word whereas, and insert the follow-
ing:

The General Assembly of Maryland, at the January Ses-
sion, 1872, did provide for the establishment of Public Schools
for the education of colored youth wherever an average
attendance of not less than fifteen scholars could be secured,
which, should be kept open as long as the other Public
Schools of the School District in which they were located,
which should be subject to the same laws, and furnish in-
struction in the same branches as the schools for white chil-
dren.

And whereas, This action was taken in response to nume-
rous petitions proceeding from the colored citizens of this
State, asking for "larger facilities for the acquisition of a ru-
dimental education, so that they and their children might
be better qualified to perform the duties of citizenship," and
praying not "that the schools for the whites should be thrown
open to their children," which they say "would be detremen-
tal to their educational interests," but "that a.proper propor-
tion of the School Fund, both of the State and counties,
should be applied to the maintenance of their separate schools,
where thejr children might be gathered upon a common level,