1892, ] OF THE SENATE. 307

Senate bill entitled an Act to repeal and re enact
with amendments section 3, of Article 30, of the Code
of Public General Laws, entitled "Deaf, Dumb and
Blind Education. "

Which were read the second time, and ordered to
be engrossed for a third reading.

House bill entitled an Act to appropriate a sum of
money to pay J. H. Medairy & Co., for printing the
official ballots of 1890 and 1891, as provided by sec-
tions 138 and 160, chapter 538, of the Acts of 1890.

House bill entitled an Act to appropriate a sum of
money to pay A. S. Abell & Co., and others, for pub-
lishing the Constitutional Amendments and Governor's
Proclamation according to contract made with the
State of Maryland.

Which were read the second time.

And, unfavorably,

Ordered, That Herman Leake be appointed a com-
mittee clerk of the Senate.

Which was read and adopted.

Also, by Mr. Hayes, from the Committee on Finance,
the following

REPORT:
To the Honorable,

the General Assembly of Maryland:

The Finance Committee of the Senate and the Ways
and Means Committee of the House of Delegates
would respectfully report that in compliance with
the terms of section 23, of Article 95, of the Code of
Public General Laws, as amended by the Act of 1890,
chapter 571, which provides, "And the Committee on
Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways
and Means of the House of Delegates shall jointly,
during each session of the Legislature and within the
first month of such session, examine and count all
such bonds and certificates of stock so purchased or
obtained up to the close of the fiscal year next pre-
ceding such session and canceled or stamped, pur-
chased for the Sinking Fund, as required by the pro-
visions of this Act, and shall burn all such bonds and
certificates of stock as belong to the overdue debt of
the State, and shall examine carefully all bonds or