256              JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 1,

AFTERNOON SESSION, 4½ o'clock, P. M.

The House met. Present at the call of the roll the follow-
ing members:

Messrs. Kilbourn, Speaker, Medders, Mackubin, Briscoe,
Compton, Burgess, Quinlan, Jones, of Talbot, Chaplain,
Dennis, of Somerset, Long, Stanford, Lawson, Maxwell, Legg,
Starkey, Jacobs, Landing, Dennis, of Worcester, Kessler,
Claggett, Routzahn, Johnson, Salmon, Wilson, of Harford,
Bayless, McCoy, Goldsborough, Krafft, Booze, Seth, Berry,
Crowley, McAllister, Turner, of Baltimore city, Denison, of
Baltimore city, Coudy, Eakle, Brining, Freaner, Stake,
Griffith, Gordon, Barnard, Beall, McCleary, Roop, Mills, Tur-
ner, of Howard, and Brown.

The Speaker laid before the House a communication from
George H. Carman, Esq, clerk of the Circuit Court for Bal-
timore county, in response to the order of the House;

Which was read and referred to the committee on Ways
and Means.

Also, announced the following bill, received from the
Senate:

A bill entitled, an act to compensate the members of the
joint committee, appointed by the late Legislature, to exam-
ine the reports of the commissioners to revise and codify the
laws;

Endorsed, "passed by yeas and nays;"

Which was read the first time, and referred to the com-
mittee on Claims.

The House then resumed the consideration of the bill en-
titled, an act to amend the 4th article of the code of pub-
lic local laws, by amending the 33rd section of said arti-
cle, relating to the police and general powers of the mayor
and city council of Baltimore, and repealing the 774,
775, 776 and 777 sections of said article, relating to the
police of said, city, and the power of the mayor and city
Council to establish and regulate the same, and inserting in
lieu of the section so repealed, certain sections, providing for a
permanent police in the city of Baltimore.

Said bill being upon its second reading,

Mr. Beall proposed the following amendment:

Strike out from the first and second lines of the fourth sec-