36                   JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. [Jan. 12.

Mr. Grieves offered the following message :

By the House of Delegates,
                                     January 12, 1858.

Gentlemen of the Senate:

The Honorable Thomas Holliday Hicks, having been elected
Governor of this State, we propose, with the concurrence of your
honorable body, the appointment of a joint committee of the two
Houses to wait on him, and request his attendance on Wednes-
day, the 13th instant, at 12 o'clock, in the Senate Chamber, to
qualify, according to the Constitution and form of Government
of this State. We have appointed Messrs. Grieves, Rogers and
Contee as said committee on the part of this House, to meet such
gentlemen as may be selected try your honorable body.

By order,

Vaughan Smith,

Chief Clerk.
Which was adopted.

The Speaker laid before the House the following reports,
viz :

The report of Charlotte Hall School ;

Referred to the committee on Education, hereafter to be ap-
pointed.

Also, of P. G. Etchison, Tobacco Inspector;

Referred to the committee on Inspections, hereafter to be ap-
pointed.

Also, the report of the Commissioners of the Maryland Luna-
tic Asylum.

On motion of Mr. Harrington, it was

Ordered, That Messrs. Harrington and Thruston be appointed
a committee to wait upon the Senate and inform them that the
House of Delegates is prepared to receive them, in order to pro-
ceed to open the returns of the vote for Governor, as required by
Sec. 3d, Art. 2d, of the Constitution ',

Adopted.

Leave was granted to Mr. Harrington to introduce a bill for
suppressing the carrying of instruments called deadly weapons.

Referred to the Judiciary committee, hereafter to be appointed.
On motion of Mr. Lynch, of Baltimore county,

Resolved, By the General Assembly of Maryland, that the
Governor be requested to authorize the Adjutant General to grant
the use of forty muskets to the students of St. Timothy's Hall,
Catonsville, Maryland, for instructions in military drill.