1867.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 513

	AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs. Miller, Speaker, Morgan, Welch, Shipley, Nicolai, Davis, of Charles, Thomas, Jump, Jones, Dennis, Phelps, Kerr, Whitaker, Lindsey, Calvert, Rouzer,	Baker, Linthicum, Gorsuch, Bamford Hoff hine, Bishop, Hutton, Turner, Coleman, Neilson, Smith, Israel, Lankford, Stevens, Thomson, Davis, of B. city,	Waltemeyer, Feig, Pitts, Nelson, Whitefor, Wilson, Spicer, McCulley, Bruce, McCulloh, Brydon, Neale, Benton, Gore, King, Hammond — 48.
	NEGATIVE — None.

Said bill was then sent to the Senate.

Mr. Jones, Chairman Committee on Federal Relations;
(the rules being suspended,) submitted the following:

(RESOLUTIONS:)

WHEREAS: By a Joint Resolution approved April 10th,
1862, Congress resolved that the United States ought to co-
operate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment
of slavery, giving to such State precuniary aid, to be used by
such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveni-
ences, public and private, produced by such change of sys-
tem."

And whereas President Lincoln, in public and private con-
ferences with the Representatives of the Border Slave States,
in the year, 1862, and afterwards urged upon them the im-
mediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their limits,
as a measure of very great importance in aiding the United
States in bringing to a successful issue the civil war then ex-
isting, and by his Proclamation of 22nd September, 1862,
declared his purpose to again recommend to Congress the
adoption of a practical measure tendering precuniary aid to
the free acceptance or rejection of all Slave States not in re-
bellion, who might adopt immediate or gradual abolishment
.of slavery within their limits.

And whereas, by the 24th section of the Act of Congress
approved on the 24th February, in the year 1864, provision
was made for enrolling all able bodied male colored persons
residing in the United States, as part of the National Forces,

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