242 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 15

granted by the General Assembly of Maryland, at its De-
cember Session, 1846, Chapter 127, and to grant additional
powers to said corporation.

House bill entitled an Act providing for the relocation and
straightening of Water street and extension of Green street,
in the City of Cumberland, and for the grading, recurbing
and repairing thereof.

Which, were read the second time.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates appeared, and deliv-
ered the following message:

BT THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES,

February 15th, 1878.
Gentlemen of the Senate:

We respectfully propose, with the concurrence of your
Honorable Body, that the Committees on Pensions of the
Senate and House of Delegates, respectively, be constituted a
Joint Committee.

By order,

MILTON Y. KIDD,

Chief Clerk.
Which was read.

Mr. Lee, from the Committee on Corporations, reported
favorably, the following bills:

House bill entitled an Act entitled a supplementary Act to
add additional sections to an Act entitled an Act to remodel
the charter of the Union Orphans' Asylum of Baltimore City,
and to provide for the dissolution thereof.

House bill entitled an Act to incorporate the Town of New
Market, in Frederick County.

House bill entitled an Act to add an additional Section to
Article 26, of the Code of Public General Laws, as the same
was re-enacted by the Act of 1868, Chapter 471, in rela ion
to the incorporation under the General Laws ef this State, of
corporations previously formed under the General Laws of
this State, or under any Special Lawg.

House bill entitled an Act to extend the Act passed at De-
cember Session, 1844, Chapter 83, entitled an Act to in-
corporate the Merchants' Shot Tower Company of Balti-
more.

Which were real the second time.