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1876.] OF THE HOUSE OF OBLIGATES. 1315
So the motion to lay the order on the table was not sus-
tained.
The question then rrcurring upon the adoption of the order,
Mr. Gill submitted the following order as a substitute
therefor:
Ordered', That the Treasurer report to this House where
and to what account the balance in the Treasury on the 1st
of February and March, 1876, was deposited.
Which was adopted.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES,
March 29th, 1876.
The following bills having passed both branches of the
General Assembly, were this day presented to his Excellency,
the Governor, for his approval:
No. 202. An Act to authorize the Trustees of I. R. Trim-
ble, to construct a pier on Light street. Baltimore, at the
foot of Welcome alley.
No. 217. An Act making further appropriations for the
support of the government and schools and reformatory in-
stitutions of the State, ending the 31st day of Dec. 1876.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk.
Mr. Snowden, Chairman on the part of the House, of the
Joint Committee on Section 24, Article 3, of the Constitu-
tion, submitted the following
REPORT.
To the Hanorable,
The Senate and House of Delegates of Maryland:
The undersigned, the Joint Committee of the Senate and
House of Delegates, appointed under and by virtue of Article
3, Section 24, of the Constitution, and to whom was referred,
among other matters, the following order, adopted in the
House of Delegates, January 18th, 1876, to wit: "And be
it further ordered, That said Committee also inquire whether
the charges made in the Republican press during the past
campaign that a public officer of this State attempted hereto-
fore to procure the passage of a law to provide a pension for
a man from Somerset county, who was not entitled thereto,
is true or false," beg leave to report that they did, at a meet-
ing of said Committee, in order to facilitate the investiga-
tions into the various matters with which they were specially
charged, appoint five members of the same to take the testi-
mony in regard to said order, to witi Messrs. Walsh, Lee,
Neal, Lewis and Farrow, who, in the discharge of the duty
assigned them, did proceed to take the testimony of every
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