678               JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [March 1,

diciary, reported favorably on the bill entitled, an act to
exempt ground from sale for taxes, until the estates of the
tenants of the leasehold have been exhausted;
Which was read the first time.

Mr. Morgan, chairman of the committee on Agriculture,
reported favorably on the bill entitled, an act to protect fox-
hounds in thin State;

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Linthicum, chairman of a select committee, reported
favorably on a bill entitled, an act to amend article 10 of the
code of public local laws in regard to the collection of judg-
ments against free negroes in Dorchester county;

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Krafft, chairman of a select committee, reported favor-
able on a bill entitled, an act to amend article 4 of the code
of public local laws by repealing sections 590 and 591 of said
article, relating to justices of the peace for the city of Balti-
more, and enacting the following sections as substitutes there-
for on the same subject;

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Legg, chairman of a select committee, reported favor-
ably on a Senate bill entitled, an act to amend section 48th,
article 17th, of the public local laws which had been refer-
red to that committee;

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Harding, chairman of a select committee, reported fa-
vorably on a bill entitled, an act to refund to Samuel T.
Stonestreet, late clerk of Montgomery County court, a sum
of money paid into the Treasury by him as a tax on his office
in the year 1851;

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

Mr. Holland, chairman of a select committee, reported fa-
vorably on a entitled, an act to repeal the 90th, 91st, 92d,
93d, 94th, 95th, 96th and 97th sections of the 19th article of
the code of public local laws, which relate to the taking of
oysters by the citizens of Somerset county;

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Salmon, chairman of a select committee, reported fa-
vorable on a bill entitled, an act to incorporate the trustees of
the Methodist Protestant Church of New Market, and to vest
the property now held by the said congregation or church in
said trustees:

Which was read the first time.