374         JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS.           [Feb. 19,

Was read the second time.

A bill entitled, an act to provide for the payment of legal fees
due to James Ll. Martin, for services rendered as prosecuting at-
torney,

Was read the second time.           

A bill entitled, an act to authorise the State Treasurer, upon
the warrant of the Comptroller, to pay over to Hannah A. Con-
stable, widow and executrix of the late Judge Constable, the
salary of her said husband for the quarter ending October the first,
1855;                                                                   

Was read the second time.

A bill entitled, an act to amend the charter of the Pickell Min-
ing Company,

Was read the second time.

A bill entitled, an act authorising the stockholders of the
Swanton Coal and Iron Company to reduce the par value of the
shares in the capital stock of said Company, and to provide for
the issue and disposal of an additional number of shares in said

capital stock,                           

Was read the second time.

A bill entitled, an act for the relief of John W. Pierson, of
Kent county,                              

Was read the second time.                                          

A bill entitled, an act to authorize certain trustees, or their

successors, or the survivors of them, to sell and convey the par-
sonage house and lot of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the
Talbot circuit, and to purchase another parsonage house and lot
with the proceeds of said sale,         

Was read the second time.

A bill entitled, an act to authorize the tax commissioners of
Anne Arundel county to hear the appeal of William S. Red-
graves,
Was read the second time.                                             

A bill entitled, an act to provide for the transcribing of certain
records in the Register's office of Worcester county,

Was read the second time.         

A bill entitled, an act to incorporate the South American Tra-
ding Company;