1858.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.          519

EVENING SESSION, 7½ o'clock, P. M.

The House met. Present at the call of the roll, the fol-
lowing members:

Messrs. Berry, Speaker, Neale, Wickes, Meginnis, Macku-
bin, Kilbourn, Griffiss, Magruder, Burgess, Stonestreet,
Lynch, of Baltimore county, Goldsborough, Moore, Dai],
Richardson, Grieves, Davis, Ford of Cecil, Wyville, Larri-
more, Sudler, of Queen Anne's, Landing, Spence, Root, Han-
way, Bacon, Baker, Todd, Smith, of Baltimore city, Ken-
nard, Lynch, of Baltimore city, Crowley, Forrest, Schnebley,
Riddlemoser, Duvall, Worthington, Mountz, Welling, and
Dorsey.

Mr. Wickes proposed the following message:

By the House of Delegates,

February 23, 1858.
Gentlemen of the Senate :

In compliance with your request we herewith return to
your Honorable body the bill entitled an act to incorporate
the stockholders of a Female Seminary in Chestertown.

By Order,

J. W. Clayton,

Chief Clerk.
Which was assented to and sent to the Senate.

The bill entitled an act to authorise and empower the
Primary School Commissioners of Howard county to lay out
and establish a new school district in said county,

Being upon its second reading,

Mr. Dorsey proposed the following amendment:

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Section 1, line 3, after the word "empower" insert "at
their discretion."

Which was assented to, and

The bill as amended read a second time and ordered to be
engrossed for a third reading.

The bill entitled, an act to incorporate the Mutual Insu-
rance Company of Somerset and Worcester counties,

Was read the second time and ordered to be engrossed for
a third reading.

The bill entitled, an act to regulate the attendance of the
Register of Wills for Anne Arundel county,

Was read the second time and ordered to be engrossed for
a third reading.