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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1866
Volume 107, Page 611   View pdf image (33K)
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1866.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 37
On motion of Mr. Norris,
Leave was granted the Carroll county delegation, to report
a bill to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within two
miles of Freedom and Trinity Churches in Carroll county.
Mr. Pilkington gave notice that he would on to-morrow
submit a motion to amend the Rules of the House by institu-
ting an additional Standing committee to be called a com-
mittee on Registration.
The Speaker (Mr. McCauley in the chair,) submitted the
following resolutions:
JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Delegates of the State
of Maryland, That this General Assembly cordially endorses
the reconstruction policy of President .Johnson as laid down
in his official message to Congress of December——, and
pledge the co-operation of the General Assembly, in all pro-
per measures looking to the reconstruction and restoration of
the revolted States upon the plan therein indicated; that the
General Assembly have entire confidence in the firmness,
patriotism and honesty of Andrew Johnson, and his determi-
nation to administer the government, entrusted to his charge
upon principles of sound wisdom, enlightened statesmanship
and unswerving loyalty.
Resolved , As the sense of this body, that the States of this
Union cannot be broken or destroyed in any mode other than
that pointed out in the Constitution itself; and that a recog-
nition of the principle that the rebellion has annulled or in
any manner compromised, their separate existence, as integ-
rals of our common Union, or reduced them to a mere terri-
torial relation, is at war with the express terms of our organic
law, and admits the inability of this government to main-
tain itself against civil war and domestic insurrection.
Resolved, That the control of the elective franchise is a
function residing in the States, and may be restricted or en-
larged as said States may deem most advantageous for the
public welfare; that any attempt by Congress, or other co-or-
dinate branch of this government, to force universal negro
suffrage, without the consent and sanction of the States,
would be a palpable, open and unauthorised interference with
the principles upon which this Government was formed, and
unwise and impolite in the present condition of our public
affairs.
Resolved, That the administration of the affairs of the State
Department during the four years of the rebellion, in carry-
ing out the policy of the government, meets the unqualified

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