148                JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 26,

The Speaker laid before the House, the following commu-
nication :

To the Honorable, the General Assembly of Maryland.

In pursuance of the requirements of the Act of Assembly of
1809, chapter 181, section 2, I, George H. Carman, Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Baltimore county, have the honor to submit
the following, Report, viz:

That the regular March term of said court, commencing on
the first Monday of March 1857, continued twenty-three days
during all of which the Honorable John H. Price, Judge of
said court, was present.

That an adjourned session of said term, was held commenc-
ing on the 25th day of August, and continued for nineteen
days, upon seventeen of which said John H. Price, Judge,
was present.

That the November term of said court commencing on the
twenty-third day of said month, is now in progress and has
been held up to date, said Judge being daily present.

Given under my hand this 1st day of December, A. D. 1857.

George H. Carman, Clerk.
On motion of Mr. Alexander,

The rules were suspended, and

Leave was granted to the committee on Pensions, to bring
in a bill to correct an error in the Act of Assembly, passed at
January session 1856, chapter 77, and to pay to Joseph Ben-
son, one year's additional pension of which he was deprived
by said error:

Mr. Alexander, from the committee on Judiciary, reported
favorably upon the Senate bill entitled, an act to secure the
more speedy payment of the bailiffs, crier and talismen, of the
Circuit Court for Carroll county.

Which was read the second time.

Mr. Thomas, from the committee on Pensions, reported
favorably on a bill entitled, an act to allow a pension to
Catharine S. McKim, widow of Alexander McKim, a private
in the cavalry in the war of the Revolution, and appropriating
a sum of money for the payment thereof.

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Thomas, from the committee on Pensions, reported
favorably upon a bill entitled, an act allowing a pension to
Ellen Shank, widow of John Shank, a soldier of the Maryland
Line, during the Revolutionary war, and appropriating a sum
of money for the payment thereof;