546 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 1

BILLS—SECOND READING.

House bill, File No. 37, entitled "An Act to declare
the sanction and consent of the General Assembly of
Maryland, to the conveyance by Stephen Boyer of
Middletown, Del., to the Vestry of North Kent Parish,
a body corporate of Kent county, Maryland, of a cer-
tain farm or tract of land in Kent county, Maryland,
described in said conveyance to and for the use of said
Vestry of North Kent Parish."

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

REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTEES.

Mr. Linthicum, from Baltimore city delegation, re-
ported favorably,

Senate bill, File No. 14, entitled "An Act to forbid
the erection or alteration of any building in Balti-
more city, except churches, within one block of the
Washington Monument in said city, to a height ex-
ceeding a point seventy feet above the surface of the
street, at the base line of the Washington Monument."

Which was read the second time.

Also favorably, with amendments,
House bill, File No. 115, entitled "An Act to authorize
and direct the Board of Police Commissioners of the
city of Baltimore o pension Jacob Frey, formerly
Marshal of Police of Baltimore city."

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

Strike out the words "the sum of one hundred and
four dollars and sixteen cents," in lines 6 and 7, of
section 1, and insert in lieu thereof the words "the
sum of seventy-five dollars."

Which was adopted.

Strike out the words in lines 8 and 9 of section 1:
"Being one half of the amount of money monthly
paid him as Marshal of Police."

Which was adopted.

Strike out the figures "1903" in the last line of sec-