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set, to co-operate with such gentlemen as may be designated
by your honorable body.

By order,

Milton Y. Kidd,

Chief Clerk.
Which was assented to.

Horace J. Gambrill, appointed committee clerk under the
order of the House, appeared and was qualified.

Mr. Dennis, of Somerset, from the committee on Colored
Population, reported favorably on the bill entitled, an act to
amend the 30th article of the code of public general laws,
by adding thereto a new section, prohibiting and punishing
the circulation of incendiary publications.

Also, on the bill entitled, an act to repeal the 31st, 32d,
33d, 34th, 35th, 37th and 38th sections of the 6th article of
the code of public general laws;

Also, on the bill entitled, an act to amend the twenty-
seventh article of the code of public general laws, by adding
thereto a new section, making negroes competent witnesses
against white persons in certain cases.

Also, on the bill entitled, an act to amend the Goth article
of the code of public general laws, by repealing the 42d, 43d
44th, 45th, 46th, 55th, 56th and 59th sections of the said
article, and by adding thereto certain sections prohibiting
manumission of negro slaves; prohibiting the immigration
of free negroes; providing a board of police commissioners,
and authorising them to sell and bind out free negroes, and
authorising free negroes to renounce their freedom and be-
come slaves;

Also, on the bill entitled, an act to amend the 36th section
of the 22d article of the code of public local laws, which
fixes the pay of the clerk of the county commissioners of
Worcester county, by increasing said pay;

Also, on the bill entitled, an act appropriating a sum of
money for the use of James G. Hening, clerk of the Circuit
court of Montgomery county;

Which were severally read the first time.

Mr. Goldsborough, from a special committee, reported a
bill entitled, an act to carry into effect the 8th section of the
act entitled, an act for the promotion of internal improve-
ments, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
thirty-five, chapter 395:

Which was read the first time.