122            JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 19,

to report a bill to amend 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17,
18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31, 38, 44, 49 and 50, sections
of article 35, of public general laws of the code.

Also, leave was granted the committee on the Judiciary,
to report a bill to amend the 4th article of the code of
public local laws.

Also, leave was granted the committee, on the Judiciary,
to report a bill to amend article 4, of the code of local public
laws, by providing a permanent police for the city of Balti-
more,

Mr. Morgan, from the committee on Agriculture, re-
ported favorably on the bill entitled, an act to authorise
the Comptroller of the Treasury, to adjust and settle the ac-
counts of the inspectors of grain, in the city of Baltimore;

Which was read the first time, and by special order, a
second time.

Mr. McAllister, from the select committee, reported favor-
ably on the bill entitled, an act to regulate the issuing of
licenses to traders, keepers of ordinaries and others ;

Which was read the first time, and referred to the commit-
tee on Ways and Means.

Mr. Lawson, presented a petition from Harvey P. John-
son, for certain relief therein mentioned;
Referred to the committee on Claims.

Mr. Wilson, of Harford county, presented the following
memorial of the board of trustees of the Maryland Institu-
tion for the instruction of the blind;

To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Delegates of the
General Assembly of Maryland:

Your memorialists respectfully represent, that, at the time
of the organization of the Maryland Institution for the In-
struction of the Blind, the State of Maryland was in the habit
of appropriating annually two thousand dollars for the edu-
cation of ten pupils. (The number of ten pupils being not
always full, a certain fund had accumulated, subject to use
for the purpose named.) By special act, chap. 224, 1854, the
State ordered the amount of annual appropriation to be in-
creased to four thousand dollars; but this special act was
over-looked by the Committee of Ways and Means, and con-
sequently the actual sum carried to the credit of the Institu-
tion for the years 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, and 1859, was on-
ly two thousand dollars annually. For the greater part of
this time the Institution has been supporting more than ten