1860.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.           907

After an absence of sometime, the committee returned and
made the following report:

To the Honorable,

The House of Delegates:

The committee appointed to investigate the disorder which
occurred during the session of this House, in the rotunda
near to this House, respectfully report:

That it was an affray between persons not connected with
this House, and that the parties thereto are now in the cus-
tody of the officers of the law; and that the said affray is
now being investigated by the State's Attorney, for Anne
Arundel county.

Wherefore they pray to be discharged from the further con-
sideration of the subject.

C. W. JACOBS,
B. COMPTON,

JAMES T. BRISCOE.
Which was adopted.

Mr. Brown, chairman of the committee on Expiring Laws,
made the following

REPORT:
The committee on Expiring Laws beg leave to report:

That by the act of 1852, chapter 360, all the temporary
public acts were made perpetual.

Your committee cannot find that since the passage of that
act, any public law has been passed limited in its duration;
therefore no act to continue expiring public laws would have
been necessary, if the code had not been adopted, but since the
adoption of the code, which comprises all our past legislation,
and makes all the enactments contained in it perpetual, until
repealed, it follows as a necessary consequence, that an act to
continue expiring laws would be useless.

All which is respectfully submitted.

JOHN R. BROWN,
BARNES COMPTON,
Z. W. LINTHICUM,
HENRY STRAUGHN,
WM. R. BARNARD,
J. LAURENCE JONES,
JOHN R. KEENE.