548 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 18,

Mr. Humphreys, from a Select Committee, (by unanimous
consent,) reported favorably,

House bill entitled an Act to repeal Sections 1, 2 and 5, of
Chapter 212, of the Acts of 1874, entitled an Act to authorize
the County Commissioners of Wicomico County, to levy taxes
on the assessable property of said county, for the purpose of
purchasing a site on which to erect a Court-House and Jail,
and furnish the same, and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments, so as to read as follows.

With, the following amendment:

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

At the end of Section 2, insert the following: "Provided,
that the County Commissioners shall not leave any portion
of said site selected for any portion whatsoever."

Which was adopted.

Said bill, as amended, was then read the second time.

On motion by Mr. Gorman.
At 3.40, the Senate took a recess until 8 P. M.

NIGHT SESSION.

MONDAY, March 18th, 1878.
The Senate met at 8 P. M.
Present at roll call the following Senators :

Messrs. Bannon, Combs, of Allegany, Dennis, Franklin,
Freeman, Garey, Gorman, Hepbron, Hill, Humphreys,
Lee, McLane, Miller, Steiner, Stump, Sulivane, Welfley,
Wilson—18.

The President announced the unfinished business 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