1070 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Apr. 1

Also laid-over Bill, with amendments, being
HOUSE BILL No. 372, BY MR. SPEAKER.
SUBJECT: REVENUE AND TAXES—COLLECTORS
AND COLLECTIONS.

With amendments as printed in the Senate Journal of
March 31. [Which amendments were read and adopted. ]
[Which favorable report was adopted, which was read the
second time. ]

SPECIAL ORDER.

The President laid before the Senate,, the Special Order,
being

HOUSE BILL No. 532, BY MR. LUTHARDT.
SUBJECT: DEPARTMENT OF LEGISLATIVE REFER-
ENCE.

[Which was read and recommitted to Committee on
Finance. ]

HOUSE BILLS—FIRST READING.

The President distributed the folio-wing message from the
House of Delegates, being House Bill No. 387, entitled "An
Act appointing a commission to consider and report to the
Governor and the General Assembly of Maryland plans and
measures to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the
sale or disposition of stock certificates, shares, bonds, deben-
tures, certificates of participation, contracts or bonds for sale
and conveyance of land on deferred payments or installment
plan, or other instruments in the nature thereof by whatsoever
name known or called, and of securities generally, by requir-
ing an inspection thereof, providing for such inspection,
supervision and regulation of the business of any person, as-
sociation, partnership, or corporation, engaged or intending
to engage, whether as principal, broker or agent, in the sale
of any such instrument or securities in the State of Maryland,
as may be necessary to prevent unfairness or fraud in the
sale or disposition of said instruments or securities, and pre-
scribing penalties for the violation thereof. " [Endorsed:
"Read the third time and passed by yeas and nays"] [Which
was read the first time and referred to the Committee on
Judicial Proceedings. ]