168 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 4

By Mr. Ogden: Senate Bill No. 124, entitled "An Act to
declare the sanction and consent of the General Assembly of
Maryland to the sale, grant, conveyance and release to 'The
Exeter Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, ' a body cor-
porate duly incorporated, by Mary E. Kugler, of the reversion
in a certain lot of ground in the City of Baltimore. " [Which
was read the first time and referred to the Committee on
Judicial Proceedings. ]

By Mr. Ogden: Senate Bill No. 125, entitled "An Act to
declare the sanction and consent of the General Assembly of
Maryland to the gift, sale, grant and conveyance to 'The
Exeter Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, ' a body cor-
porate duly incorporated, by Laura Patterson and others, of
a certain lot of ground and improvements in the City of Bal-
timore. " [Which was read the first time and referred to the
. Committee on Judicial Proceedings. ]

The President distributed the following message from the
House of Delegates, being House Bill No. 30, entitled "An" Act
to repeal and re-enact Section 187 of Article 81 of the Code rof
Public General Laws, entitled 'Revenue and Taxes, ' sub title
^Tax on Mortgages, ' as amended and re-enacted by the Act of
1906, Chapter 79-1, as amended and re-enacted by the Act of
1908, Chapter 283, as amended and re-enacted by the Act of
1910, Chapter 544, as amended and re-enacted by the Act of
1912, Chapter 115, and to re-enact said section with amend-
ments. " [Endorsed: "Read the third time and passed "by yeas
and nays. "] [Which was read the first time and referred to
the Committee on Finance. ']

Also House Bill No. 64, entitled "An Act to repeal Section
12 of the Acts of 1898, Chapter 99, Public Local Laws, entitled
'Washington County, ' sub-title 'Sharpsburg, ' and to re-enact
the same with amendments. " [Endorsed: "Read the third time
and passed by yeas and nays. "] [Which was read the first
time and referred to Senators Bomberger, Warfield and Kauf-
man. ]

REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTEES.

Mr. Chesley, from Select Committee, reported favorably
Senate Bill No. 62, entitled "An Act to repeal an Act entitled
'An Act to authorize, empower and direct the County Com-
missioners of St. Mary's county to subscribe to the preferred
capital stock or income bonds of the Washington, Potomac
And Chesapeake Railway Company, and to issue bonds to pro-