882 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 22,

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,

Being upon its third reading,

Mr. Stump (by unanimous consent) submitted the follow-
ing amendment :

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Amend Section 1, Chapter 17, page 37, Hoe 7, after the
words "salaries of teachers," strike out all that follows of
that section and insert "out of the general school fund."

Which was adopted.

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

ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

On motion by Mr. Gorman,
The vote by which the unfavorable report was adopted on

Senate bill entitled an Act to repeal and re-enact with
amendments Section 1, and to repeal Section 4, of Article 13,

of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Bastardy and
Fornication,"

Was reconsidered, and ordered to lie over.

Senate bill entitled an Act to authorize the Comptroller
and Treasurer, to adjust and settle the account of the State
against the Chester River Steamboat Company,

Was read the second time, and ordered to be engrossed for

a third reading.

Senate bill entitled an Act to repeal Section 1, of the Acts
of 1853, entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to
establish a House of Refuge for juvenile delinquents and sup-
plements thereto so as to reduce the number of managers
thereof and to re-enact the same with amendments so as to
read as follows,

Was read the second time, and ordered to be engrossed for
s third reading.