1236 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 23

situated in Washington county, Maryland, is being
pillaged and is rapidly reaching a stare of dilapidation
and ruin; and

Whereas, It is eminently proper that this fortifica-
tion rich in historic lore and the only one of those of
the ante-Revolutionary period left, connecting the
past, with the present, should be rescued and preserved:
therefore, be it

Resolved, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
that His Excellency, Governor Edwin Warfield,
Mr. Thomas Leiber Patterson of Cumberland, Mary-
land, Mr. Alexander Armstrong, Jr., and Miss Leonore
Hamilton, of Hagerstown, Maryland, be and they are
hereby appointed a committee to prepare an accurate
plan of Fort Frederick, as originally constructed, and
obtain an estimate of the cost of rebuilding such parts
of the structure as have been torn down and of restor-
ing the whole to its original condition; also to ascer-
tain the probable cost to the State of securing title to
the Fort, and the land purchased by Governor Horatio
Sharp for its use, and to collect all available data as
the history and succession of the title of the same from
the first patent to Col. Thomas Cresap in 1739, and
Peter Johnson in 1743, to the present time, including
survey and plat of the property, all of which proceed-
ings and data the said committee is requested to sub-
mit to the next General Assembly of Maryland, and
the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars is hereby ap-
propriated to defray the expenses of said commission.

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

That $50 be substituted for $250, named in order.

Which was adopted.

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

Mr. Johnston from Select Committee, reported fav-
orably with proposed amendments.

Senate bill, File No. 223, entitled "An Act to create
the office of Treasurer of Montgomery county, and to
provide for the collection of taxes therein."

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

Strike out the words after "A Bill," and insert the
following: