858 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 13,

you in meat or in drink, or in respect of an holiday, or of the
new moon, or of the Sabbath days."

We submit, in conclusion, that the Jewish Sabbath has
never been kept as the present oppressive law requires us to keep
Sunday; and that whatever the obligations of the Sabbath,
it is not fpr the State to adopt a particular sectarian view
of them, and, in violation of the clear rights of conscience
and freedom, to embody that view in a statutory enactment.

We have in thie memorial confined ourselves to the real
questions at issue, and have not thought it worth while to
dwell upon the false and foolish .charges of mammon-wor-
ship, debauchery, &c., which have been so freely uttered
against us. . Some latitude of abusive language may be indul-
ged to men whose predecessors in the work of religious per-
secution enjoyed the now lost privilege of burning their ad-
versaries at the stake.

We respectfully ask of this General Assembly a repeal
of the Sunday Law, and in duty bound we will ever pray, &c.

Signed—John B. Williams, M. D.; N. R. Waters; A. C.
Sellman; R. W. Glover; R. G. Moore; Robert P. Brown ;
Samuel Wylie; J. Williams; James Gittings.

Mr. Gorsueh presented the petition of John Derr and nine-
ty other citizens of Frederick county, asking for the passage
of a law to protect sheep, against dogs ;

Which was read and and referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary.

Mr. Hutchins moved to reconsider the vote by which the
bill entitled, an Act to incorporate the Frederick and Penn-
sylvania Line Railroad Company, was passed.

Pending the consideration of which,
The how of 12 o'clock having arrived,

In conformity with the Act of Congress, 1866, chapter 245,
entitled, an Act to regulate the time and manner of holding
elections for Senators in Congress, the Senators of Maryland
appeared in the Hall of the House, when the Secretary of the
Senate proceeded to read the action of that body upon the
question of the election of United States Senator on yester-
day ;.

After which the Clerk of' the House read the proceedings
of the House upon the same subject;

From which it appearing that the Honorable Philip Francis
Thomas, having received a majority of all the votes cast,

The Speaker of the House announced the Honorable Philip
Francis Thomas elected a Senator from the State of Maryland
to the Congress of the United States for the term of six years
from the 4th day of March, 1867.

The House then resumed the consideration of the bill enti-