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Mr, Bowie presented the memorial of Joseph P. Merryman
and other citizens of Baltimore, remonstrating against any
change in the charter of the Baltimore and Potomac Rail
Road Company;

Which was read and referred to the Committee on Inter-
nal Improvements.

Mr. Stepenson presented the memorial of 50 citizens of Ce-
cil county, protesting against the erection of booms in the
Susquehanna River;

Which was read and referred to the committee on that
subject.

On motion by Mr. Maddox,

Leave was granted to Messrs. Maddox, Young and Kim-
mel, to introduce a bill for the relief of Henry Jones, Bounty
Commissioner for St. Mary's county.

On motion by Mr. Trail,

Leave was granted to the Committee on Judicial Proceed-
ings to introduce a bill entitled, an Act to authorize and di-
fect the Surveyor of Frederick county to record all surveys
or land in said county.

On motion by Mr. Bowie,

Leave was granted to Messrs. Bowie, Compton and Frazier,
to introduce a bill entitled, an Act to regulate the means of
egress from public buildings.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates delivered the follow-
ing Joint Resolutions:

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That to pre-
vent anarchy, confusion and irregular unauthorized govern-
ment, it is expedient that proposals to create, or to alter and
amend a Constitution, should eminate from the Legislature.

2d. That the power of the Legislature at any time, to refer
to the people questions concerning the organic law, cannot be
constitutionally limited, inasmuch as any limitation would
deprive them of the power enunciated in the second Article of
the Bill of Rights, as inalienable; and inasmuch as the Con-
stitution might defer amendments to remote future time, or
might render them impossible; and that one generation can-
not in this manner bind future generations.

3d. That, subject to the limitation of the first resolution,
the people can at any time change or alter the organic consti-
tutional law, but that any attempt to do so by irregular, un-
authorized action by a portion of the people, would be of dan-
gerous tendency and consequences.

Which were read and referred to the Committee on Judicial
Proceedings.