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Favorably on a bill entitled, an act to enable John Beall
and George A. Pearre, trustees of the Mineral Bank of Mary-
land, to wind up and close their trust as expeditiously as may
be, and to protect them in so doing; also,
Favorably on a bill entitled, an act to carry into effect the
will of William Brown, deceased, of the city of Baltimore;
also,

Favorably on a bill entitled, an act to make valid and effec-
tual, the devise add provisions contained in the last will and
testament of Thomas Shields, deceased, for the benefit of the
First Baptist Church of Philadelphia; also,

Favorably on a bill entitled, an act to repeal the 1st sec-
tion of the act of 1844, chapter 5; also,

Favorably on a bill entitled, an act for the restraint of
drunkenness; also,

Favorably on a bill entitled, an act relating to the Justices
of the Peace, in and for the city of Baltimore, locating their
places of business, providing for the payment of their fees in
criminal cases, and providing for the election and appoint-
ment of two additional Justices of the Tenth Ward, in said
city; also,

Favorably on a bill entitled, an act for the relief of the
sureties on the official bonds of Lloyd B. Smith;

Which were severally read the first time.

Mr. Forrest, from a select committee, made the following

REPORT:

To the Honorable,

The House of Delegates of Maryland:

The special committee heretofore appointed on the order of
this House, with authority to proceed to Baltimore city, and
examine into the general condition, clerical and financial, of
the clerk's office of the Superior Court of Baltimore city, have
as far as it is at present practicable, performed the duty as-
signed them, and beg leave to report to your honorable body,
that they proceeded to Baltimore city, and were received by
George E. Sangston, Esq., the present gentlemanly incum-
bent, who has lately been installed in office, and who afford-
ed your committee every possible facility, for which our
thanks are due, to promote and forward the investigation,
which the order of this House required, at our hands. We
gave to the books and records of said office the most rigid
scrutiny, and in order that the responsibility for its present
condition, which our duty compels us to report, we found it
in, may rest where it properly belongs. We herewith file