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Also, on the bill entitled, an act to incorporate the Walnut
Grove Company, of Baltimore county;

Also, on the bill entitled, a further supplement to the act
entitled, an act to incorporate the Philadelphia and Baltimore
Central Railroad company, authorising said company to bor-
row an additional sum of money;

Which were severally read the first time.

Mr. Gordon, chairman of the committee on the Judiciary,
reported favorably on the bill entitled, an act to make valid
the proceedings of the Circuit court for Washington county,
Hitting in equity, in a case in which certain real estate belong-
ing to the estate of J. H. Kennedy, deceased, was sold by
order of said court;

Also, on the bill entitled, an act to amend the seventh
section, relating to summoning, drawing and challenging
jurors, to article 49 of the code of public general laws;

Also, on the bill entitled, an act to carry out the provisions
of the 19th section of article 4 of the Constitution, by adding
new sections to the 74th article of the code of public general
laws, by authorising the removal of causes from the several
courts of Baltimore city;

Which were severally read the first time.
On motion of Mr. Eakle,

The rules were suspended, and the House took up for con-
sideration the bill entitled, an act, to repeal the 127th section
of the code of public general laws, imposing a fine upon min-
isters for marrying minors under certain circumstances;

Said bill being upon its second reading;

Mr. Eakle proposed the following amendment:

"Section 2. If any minister shall knowingly join in mar-
riage any male, under the age of twenty-one, or any female,
under the age of sixteen years, and not before married, with-
out the consent of the parent or guardian of every such per-
son already given, or signified under the hand and seal of the
said parent or guardian, and attested by two witnesses, he
shall, on conviction before a court of competent jurisdiction,
be fined one hundred dollars for each and every offence;

Which was not concurred in.

The said bill was then read the second time, and by special
order, the third time, and paused by yeas and nays as follow: