528 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 11,

tions, House Resolutions proposed as an amendment, which
were adopted, and Resolutions, as thus amended, read a second
time and passed by yeas and nays, with proposed amendment.''

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.
As a substitute for the whole Senate Resolutions :

''WHEREAS, The State of Maryland has provided public
schools both, in the counties and in the city of Baltimore,
for the education of colored children, wherever the same
could be maintained by an average attendance of not less
than fifteen scholars ; which schools are subject to the samp
rules and regulations, and furnish the same course of in-
structions as the other public schools in the same district in
which they may bo situated.

And whereas, The State of Maryland has further provided
a State Normal School for the education of colored teachers,
to supply teachers of the colored race to the present colored
schools, and for such other colored, schools as may hereafter
he organized; all of which has been done with a liberal spir-
it and at considerable expense to the State.

And whereas, These schools have been provided by the
State, at the request of the best and. most intelligent portion
of our colored population, in their petitions to the General
Assembly of 1872, asking "for larger facilities for the acqui-
sition of a rudimental education," and praying not "that
the school for whites should be thrown open to their children,
which they say would be detrimental to their educational in-
terest; but that a portion of the school fund, both of the
State and counties, should be applied to the maintenance of
their separate schools, where their children might be gather-
ed together upon a common level, and. receive their educa-
tional training at the hands of teachers of their own color."

And whereas, The present School System, with such addi-
tions as are contemplated, and may by provided by the pres-
ent General Assembly, is in accordance with the judgement
and wishes of, and seems to be entirely satisfactory to the
people of both races; therefore

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the passage of the Act, now before the Congress of the Uni-
ted States, entitled the Supplemental Civil Rights Bill, which,
amongst other things, require the sustenance of mixed schools
in this State, will, in our opinion, be impolitic, unwise, and
to use the words of the petitoiners to the General Assembly
of 1872, "detrimental to the educational interest of both
white and colored races ;

And be it further resolved, That our Senators, in the Con-
gress of the United States be instructed, and our Representa-