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the payment of said tax by such banks as have failed and
refused to comply with the requirements of said Act, and
that said Committe report to this House by bill or otherwise.

Which was adopted.

Mr. Neale offered the following :

Ordered, That the 8th Rule for the Government of this
Body be read, and that the Speaker be and hereby is very
respectfully requested to enforce the same.

Which, on motion of Mr. Boswell,

Was laid on the table.

Mr. Steiner offered the following :

Ordered, That a Special Committee of five be appointed by
the Speaker, to investigate the charges made in the public
press of alleged official misconduct on the part of William
Thomas Valliant, one of the Police Commissioners of Balti
more city, appointed by Governor Swann; which

On motion of Mr. Boswell,
Was laid on the table by yeas and nays as follow :

	AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs. Miller, Speaker, Morgan, Beck, Welch, Hall, Williams, Hutchins, Ford, Shipley, Davis of Charles Thomas, Jump, Phelps,	Whitaker Lindsey, Calvert, Hutton, Burche, Turner, Coleman, Neilson, Smith, Flaherty, Robson, Hooper, Israel, Knott,	Lankford, Stevens, Kraft, Boswell, Davis, of B, city, Feig, Aydelott, Nelson, Carmichael, Neale, Dawson, Horsey, Hammond — 41.
	NEGATIVE.
Messrs. Clarke, Cameron, Parsons, Magruder, Rouzer,	Buhrman, Baker, Linthicum, Gorsuch, Steiner, Bishop,	Spicer, Gilpin, McCulley, Criswell, Wampler — 16.

On motion of Mr. Magruder,

Ordered, That the use of this hall be tendered to Dr. Geo.
M. Bagby, of Virginia, for the purpose of lecturing on the
"Native Virginian," on to-morrow, (Thursday,) evening;

Which was adopted.
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