1858.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.          457

Resolved, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
our Senators and Representatives in Congress of the United
States, be earnestly and respectfully requested to procure the
passage of a law, making all bridges, turnpikes, plank roads,
and ferries, free within the District of Columbia, on roads
leading from Maryland to the seat of General Government, in
the same manner as those leading from the State of Virginia
thereto, are made free.

Resolved, That a copy of the aforegoing resolutions be
forthwith transmitted to our Senators and Representatives
aforesaid;

Which was read.

On motion Mr. Kilbourn,

Leave was granted to the committee on Judiciary, to bring
in a bill to provide for the division of the city of Baltimore
into twenty wards, and of said wards into election districts.

On motion of Mr. Kilbourn,

Leave was granted to the committee on Judiciary, to bring
in a bill to prevent frauds at elections in this State.

Mr. Kilgour offered the following order;

Ordered, That if Mr. Mountz, of the committee on the
Library, and Mr. Barnard, of the committee on Claims had
been present when the vote was taken on the bill defining the
word "resident," they would have voted in the negative;

Which was adopted.

Mr. Spence offered the following order :

Ordered, That there be printed for the use of the members
five hundred copies of the memorial of sundry citizens of
Worcester county, in this State, praying the interposition of
legislation in reference to the free negro and slave population
of the State;

Which was rejected.

Mr. McKinstry offered the following order:

Ordered, That it be entered upon the Journal that Mr. Day
is detained at home on account of indisposition in his family;

Which was adopted.
On motion of Mr. Sudler, of Q. A.,

Leave was granted to the Queen Anne's county delegation
to introduce a bill authorising the County Commissioners for
Queen Anne's county to levy an additional tax upon the as-
sessable property in Primary School District No. 4, of said
county, to increase the school fund in said district.

On motion of Mr. Stirling,