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Which was adopted.                   

The chairman of the committee on corporations reported an
act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Mutual
Insurance Company of Frederick County, passed at December
session 1843, chapter 199.                                         

Which was read the first time.

The Secretary of the Senate delivered the following Bills:

A Bill entitled an act for the relief of James Owens, of Allega-
ny county;                   

A Bill entitled an act to change the name of the town of
Llangollen, in Allegany county, to that of Bloomington;

A Bill entitled an act to change the name of Mary Emeline
Rider of Somerset county, to Mary Wallace Rider,

Which were severally endorsed and passed by yeas and nays.

Also two reports of George H. Williams, Secretary of the Bal-
timore and Harford Turnpike Company.

Mr. Partridge, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported
the following bills :                                                                 

A bill entitled an act to alter and change the name of John
White, of the City of Baltimore, to the name of John W. Maxfield;

A Bill entitled an act to authorize and direct the sale of cer-
tain lands devised to Lawrence W. Bates and Eliza, his wife, as
Trustees, by Elizabeth Bayley deceased, and the investment of
the proceeds thereof in other property for the same purposes.

Which were read the first time.

Mr. Silver from the Committee on Corporations, reported a
bill entitled an act to amend the Charter of the Baltimore
Smelting Company.                       

Which was read the first time.

The Committee upon Corporations reported favorably on a
bill entitled an act to incorporate certain persons as Trustees of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in Princess Anne, in Somerset
county, to be called the "Antioch Church," and to vest the prop-
erty of said Church in said Trustees,                                               

Which was read the third time, and           

On motion of Mr. Partridge,

Was amended by the insertion of the following words at the
end of first section :                                                   

The whole amount of any such additional lots or
pieces of lands shall not at any onetime exceed the extent of five
acres.