128               JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 20,

and John Petcing, keeper of the heating apparatus, and that
they be placed on the journal of accounts;                         

Which was adopted, and Messrs. Linthicum, Harding and
Ford constituted said committee.

On motion of Mr. Denison, of Baltimore county,

Leave was granted the committee on Corporations to
bring in a bill entitled, an act to incorporate the Towsontown
Land company.                                                                 

On motion of Mr. Worthington,                               

Leave was granted the committee on the Judiciary, to
introduce a bill to make valid, a deed from Lydia Turner,
Thomas W. Turner and Sarah Ann Turner, to Thomas G.
Rutledge of Baltimore county.

On motion of Mr. Freaner,

Leave was granted the committee on Colored Population
to introduce a hill, to allow S. S. Cunningham, of Washing-
ton county, to bring into this State a servant slave for a term
of years.

On motion of Mr. Freaner,

The rules were suspended to allow him to offer a petition
of T. G. Robertson and others, for a law to protect game;

Referred to the Washington county delegation.
On motion of Mr. Briscoe,

Leave was granted the committee on the Judiciary to
introduce a bill entitled, an act to enlarge the rights of cor-
porators, paying taxes in municipal corporations.

On motion of Mr. McAllister,

Leave was granted the committee on Colored Population
to introduce a bill, to allow William M. Newton, of Balti-
more city, to bring into this State, Ellenora Thompson, a
slave for life.

Mr. Mackubin, chairman of the committee on Claims, re-
ported favorably on the following bills:

The bill entitled, an act to refund to the Society of the
Redemptorists, certain sums of money for taxes erroneously
paid by them ;                                 

The bill entitled, an act to compensate I. Nevitt Steele,
for legal services rendered in the Court of Appeals, for argu-