496 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 14,

Also, delivered

House bill entitled an Act to repeal an Act passed at the
Session of the General Assembly of Maryland, in 1876, Chap-
ter 252, entitled an Act to repeal an Act passed at the Ses-
sion of the General Assembly of Maryland, 1874, Chapter
421, regulating fishing in the waters of Cecil and Harford
Counties, and to substitute the following in lieu thereof.

Which was read the first time, and referred to the Com-
mittee on the Chesapeake Bay and its Tributaries.

Also, returned

Senate bill entitled an Act to prohibit the taking and
catching of oysters, for sale in certain waters in Calvert
County.

Endorsed : "Passed by yeas and nays."

The President announced the order of the day to be

Senate bill entitled an Act to repeal Chapter 377, of the
Acts of 1872, entitled an Act to repeal an Act of 1870, Chap-
ter 311, entitled an Act to repeal an Act of 1868, Chapter
407, entitled "Public Education," providing a general sys-
tem of Free Public Schools for the State of Maryland, and to
repeal all laws inconsistent therewith, and to re-enact the
same with amendments, and to repeal Chapter 473, of the
Acts of 1874, amendatory of the Acts of 1872, Chapter 377,
and to re-enact the said two Acts of 1872, Chapter 377, and
the Act of 1874, Chapter 473, with amendments, so as to
read as follows:

Said bill being upon its second reading,
Mr. Sulivane submitted the following amendment :
AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Section 3, line 2, after the word "Public," insert the
word "General."

Which was adopted.

Mr. Stump submitted the following amendment :
AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Add to Section 2, Chapter 2, line 19, after the words "at
all times," "The Governor of the State shall fill any vacancy
in said Board from any cause, by appointment from the Ju-
dicial Circuit, when such vacancy exists, until the next Con-
gressional Election."

Which was adopted.