292 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 26,.

Mr. Hepbron presented the petition of James S. Harris, T.
S. Wilson, Daniel Crew and James A. Roseberry and 12
others, citizens of Kent County, praying for an Act to
change the voting place in the third district of said county.

Also,

The petition of George T. Spry and W. G. Rasin and 18
others, citizens of Kent County, praying for an Act to-
change the veting place in the third district of said county.

Which were read and referred to Senators Hepbron, Ford
and Miller.

Mr, Steiner presented the petition of W. H. Todd, Samuel
Clem and 87 others, citizens of Creagerstown District, Fred-
erick County, praying for the passage of a law prohibiting:
the licensing of any one to sell intoxicating liquors within
the bounds of said district.

Which was read, and referred to the Committee on Temper-
ance.

Also,

The petition of Doctors Christopher Johnson, Abram B.
Arnold, Samuel C. Chew, and John Morris, a Committee of
the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, praying:
the passage of an Act preventing the disclosure of confiden-
tial communications made to physicians and surgeons by
their patients.

Which was read, and referred to the Committee on Judicial
Proceedings.

Also, the following memorial :
To the Honorable,

the General Assembly of Maryland :

The memorial of Brantz Mayer, a citizen of this State, most
respectfully represents, that your memorialist having long
taken great interest in the collection and preservation of
materials for history, begs leave to invoke your attention to
the necessity of establishing at our capital an archive in.
which our State papers, during both Proprietary and State
Government, may be gathered, systematically arranged and
faithfully preserved for reference or study.

Your memorialist begs leave, also, to present herewith for
your notice a printed letter, which he sent in 1866 to Gover-
nor Bradford, on returning to Annapolis certain State papers
which he had disentombed from the dust, and classified by
permission of that executive officer. Since then, those papers