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1900.] OF THE SENATE. 195 Senate bill No. 30, entitled "Art Act to add an addi- tional section to Article 66, of the Code of Public Gen- eral Laws, entitled ‘Mortgages,' to be known as ‘Section 23.'" On motion of Mr. Bouic, Said bill was recommitted to the Committee on Judicial Proceedings, The Secretary of the State appeared and delivered a message from the Executive. JOINT RESOLUTION. Mr. Rohrback, (by request,) presented the following: Joint Resolution of the General Assembly of Mary- land, expressive of the sympathy of the people of this State for the peoples of the South African Republics, now contending for the right of liberty and existence, against the mighty power of that country which, a cen- tury and a quarter ago, ravaged our coasts, plundered our towns and butchered our people, in a vain attempt to impose upon us the same tyrannical yoke which it is now endeavoring to force upon the enlightened, free and heroic Boers. Whereas, All enlightened governments derive their just powers from the consent of the people, and it is the duty of every free man capable of bearing arms to de- fend his home and country from foreign invasion, and if necessary to spill blood or sacrifice life or property in the perfoimance of that duty; and Whereas, The government of Her Brittannic Majesty, in the heart of the African continent, as heretofore on the American continent, has again tried, by various and notorious attempts, to tamper with local factions, to prac- tice the arts of seduction by the power of money, to mis- lead public opinion, and to influence the minds of en- lightened foreign nations, to the end that it may wrest from the free Boers their hard-won liberty, filch from them their well-earned property, and, uninfluenced by public morality, remain unintcrfcrcd with by the nations of the world aghast at the crowning infamy of successful |
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