1856.] OF THE HOUSE OP DELEGATES.              29

Mr. Frey presented the petition of J. H. Hoblitzell, and
78 others, citizens of Frostburg, Allegany county, asking the
Legislature to pass an act permitting the Frostburg Savings

Bank to issue Bank Notes.                                                     

Referred to the Committee on Corporations.
Mr. Hall presented the petition of Richard Kirk and others, of
Montgomery county; asking permission of the Legislature for
the return of Thomas Warfield and family from the District of
Columbia, to this State.

Referred to the Committee on Colored Population.

Mr. Rankin offered the following resolution :

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Board of Commissioners of Baltimore county, be and they are
hereby authorised to have a legal investigation of the action of
their predecessors in paying certain fees to the Treasurer of said
county, for receiving and disbursing certain moneys appropriated
for the Public Buildings of said county, or any other public.
money, and report the same to this body.

Mr. Rankin offered the following resolution :               

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Commissioners appointed under the act of 1854, chapter 144,
to superintend the selection of a suitable lot or lots, and erect
thereon a Court House and Jail for the use of Baltimore county,
be and they are hereby required to report to this body forthwith,
a detailed statement of all the funds expended and the vouchers
therefor, also the progress of said buildings.

On motion of Mr. Partridge,
Leave was granted to the Committee on the Judiciary to bring
in a bill granting powers to the Circuit Courts of this State,
sitting in eduity, to amend all technical or merely formal defects
in the acknowledgements of deeds.

Mr. Smith, of Carroll, offered the following order:

Ordered, That it be entered on the Journal that Stephen T. C.
Brown, of Carroll county, is detained from his seat by indis-
position.                                                                                     

Which was adopted.                                       

On motion of Mr. Daniel,

The House reconsidered the order offered by him yesterday,
as a substitute for Mr. Kennedy's resolutions in reference to the
Governor's Message;                                            

And the whole subject was ordered to lie over.
Mr. Silver offered the following order: