258 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 18,

cent waters, and the establishment of the Pier and Bulk-
head Lines thereof, and appropriating five thousand dollars,
to pay the exj enses of said Board.

Also, by Mr. Stevens,

Leave was granted to the Senators from Baltimore city to
introduce a bill entitled an Act to provide for cleaning out
the harbor and basin and docks ef the City of Baltimore,
and for the permanent removal of the causes whereby the
waters of the said harbor and basin have been polluted; and
to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
issue bonds to the amount of one million of dollars, to de-
fray the expenses of said work.

Mr. McCulloh, from the Committee on Corporations, re-
ported favorably,

House bill entitled a supplement to an Act passed at the

January Session, 1860, chapter 267, entitled an Act incor-
porating a Company to open in part aod improve the road
from Frederick city, in Frederick county, to the Spout
Spring, on the Hamburg Road, passing Bradrup's Saw Mill.

Which was read the second time.

Mr. Humphreys, from the Committee on Judicial Pro-
ceedings, reported favorably,

Senate bill entitled an Act to authorize the Commissioner
of the Land Office to continue the indexing of certain land
records, and extracts of deeds transferred to the Land Office
from the office of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, under
the Act of 1874, chap. 66.

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Knight, from the Committee on Judicial Proceedings,
reported unfavorably,

Senate bill entitled an Act to suppress the nuisance of
travelling vagrants and beggars, commonly called ''tramps."

Which was adopted.

Mr. Stevens, from the Committee on Judicial Proceedings,
reported favorably,

Senate bill entitled an Act to promote the security of com-
mercial transactions by regulating the issue, negotiability
and transfer of bills of lading, storage receipts and like com-
mercial instruments, by defining the rights of the holders
thereof, and by preventing and punishing improper dealings
with the same, or with the goods covered thereby.

Which was read the first time.

Also, by Mr. Stevens, unfavorably,

Senate bill entitled an Act to repeal Section 167, of Art.
4, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Baltimore city, title

"Courts," and to re-enact the same with amendments.
Which was adopted.