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Referred to the committee on Education.
Mr. Stake submitted the following :

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Adjutant General be and he is hereby directed to furnish to
John Hanigan, of Washington county, a musket or rifle, as
the said John Hanigan may elect, out of any unappropriated
arms now in his possession, as a slight testimonial of the re-
gard in which lie is held by his native State, for meritorious
services in the late war with Great Britain, upon the Canada
lines and at Fort McHenry;

Which was read the first time, and by special order the
second and third time, and passed by yeas and nays as follow:

	Affirmative.
Messrs.	Keene,	Straughn,
Kilbourn, Speaker	Holland,	Krafft,
Medders,	Wilson, of Cecil,	Booze,
Welch,	Maxwell,	Berry,
Mackubin,	Miller,	McAllister,
Parran,	Bryan,	Smith,
Compton,	Legg,	Eakle,
Burgess,	Starkey,	Freaner,
Ford,	Jacobs,	Stake,
Worthington,	Landing,	Griffith,
Denison, Balt. co.	Dennis, of Wor.	Barnard,
Quinlan,	Kessler,	Beall,
Chaplain,	Claggett,	Roop,
Long,	Routzahn,	Mills,
Lawson,	Naill,	Turner, Howard,
Linthicum,	Bayless,	Brown—47.
	Negative—None.

The said resolution was then sent to the Senate.

Mr. Ford presented a petition from Colonel John S. Git-
tings, President of the Northern Central Railway, asking
certain legislation for said company;

Referred to the committee on Corporations.                   

Also, a petition from Thomas Ely, President of the Elys-
ville Manufacturing Company, asking the extension of its
charter;

Which was read, and laid on the table.
On motion of Mr. Freaner,

The rules were suspended, and the bill entitled, an act to