316 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 25

PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS, MEMORIALS AND
OTHER PAPERS.

By the President: Petition of Joshua Levering, president';
Dr. W. W. Davis, general secretary; John C. Thomas, treas-
urer; John T. Stone and W. H. Morris of the Lord's Day
Alliance of Maryland, protesting against Mr. Herpich's House
Bill No. 192. [Which was read and referred to the Committee
on Judicial Proceedings. ]

Also a petition by the Harlem Park Methodist Episcopal
Church Sunday School, 714 N. Gilmor street, Baltimore Md.,
C. G. Mullinix, secretary, urging the passage of the State-
wide Prohibition Bill. [Which was read and referred to the
Committee on Temperance. ]

Also a petition by the Maryland State Grange, endorsed by
Brighten Subordinate Grange No. 60, Lavinia Brown, sec-
retary, for the passage of laws to establish the Torrens Sys-
tem of Land Title Registration in the State of Maryland.
[Which was read and referred to the Committee on Finance. ]

Also a petition of O. Edw. Janney, M. D., in his own behalf
and on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends, urging
the passage of Bills against race track gambling, publication
of race track news, to submit the question of the sale of
liquor to a vote of the people and in favor of equal suffrage.
[Which was read and referred to the Committee on Judicial
Proceedings. ]

Mr. Bennett submitted petitions signed by Chas. L. Pate and
125 others endorsing the State-wide Prohibition Bill. [Which
was read and referred to the Committee on Temperance. ]

ORDERS.

Mr. Legg ordered that 300 copies of Senate Bill known as
The Maryland Education Survey Commission Bill be printed.
[Which was read and referred to the Committee on Finance. ]

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

By the President, by request: Senate Bill No. 308, entitled
"An Act to authorize and empower the Judges of the Court
of Appeals of Maryland to reinstate the cause of Edwin M.
Wilmer, trustee, et al., vs. the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, No. 56, April term of said Court, 1911. " [Which
was read the first time and referred to the Committee on Ju-
dicial Proceedings. ]