1828 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Apr. 2

Also,

House bill, File No. 685, entitled "An Act to repeal
and re-enact with amendments section 99 of Article 4
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland title
"City of Baltimore' sub-title 'Charter.' "

Endorsed: "Reported unfavorably and the unfavora-
ble report was adopted."

House bill, File No. 487, entitled "An Act to add
an additional section to Article 27, of the Code of
Public General Laws, title 'Crimesand Punishments,'
under the sub-title 'Theatrical Exhibitions,' to follow
section 254, and to be numbered 'Section 254 A.' "

Endorsed : "Reported unfavorably, and the un-
favorable report was adopted."

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 12.

Whereas, It is represented that Fort Frederick,
situated in Washington county, Maryland, is being:
pillaged and is rapidly reaching a state 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