108                JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 23,

trivial errors which may be easily corrected in the revised copy
we propose hereafter to report. It is difficult to avoid errors in
the first copies, and in manuscript mistakes are not so easily dis-
covered as they are when the matter is printed. On this account
we have thought best to publish each article separately, and fur-
nish copies to persons of intelligence, and after careful examina-
tion, and receiving such suggestions as we may be able to obtain,
to print a revised copy for the action of the Legislature.

We have deferred printing any more of the code till we ascer-
tain what portion of the Report of the gentlemen appointed "to
revise, simplify and abridge the rules of Practice, Pleading,
Forms of Conveyancing and Proceedings of the Courts of this
State," will be adopted. If their report is adopted, as it is pre-
sented to the Legislature, we shall have to change and modify a
large portion of cur work. The report of the Commissioners
changes the law, so that every article we have prepared, on the
general laws, will have to be altered to conform to it. When we
are informed of the views of the Legislature, in reference to the
report of the Commissioners, we will as speedily as practicable,
proceed with the codification, and can be prepared at no very dis-
tant day, to report a revised edition of the entire code.

Respectfully,                              

OTHO Scott,

HIRAM McCullough.
On motion of Mr. Merrick,                                                 

The further reading of the report be dispensed with and re-
ferred to a Special Committee.

Also, a report from the Inspector of Guano in compliance with
the Order of the House of Delegates, passed January 1856;

Which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
[See Document D,]

Mr. Dowell presented the memorial of sundry Tobacco Plant-
ers, asking the appointment of a State's, agent, to give general
superintendence to the State's Tobacco Warehouses in the City
of Baltimore;                               

Which was referred to the Committee on Inspections.

Mr. Harrington presented a petition of the Commissioners for
building Tobacco Warehouse in Baltimore, asking compensation;

Which was referred to the Committee on Claims.
Mr. Frazier submitted the following,

Ordered, That the Committee on Claims have the privilege of
sitting whilst the House is in session;