1867.] OF THE SENATE. , 375

Kimmel, Mackall,	Young — 17.
	NEGATIVE — None.

Said bill was then sent to the House of Delegates.

The bill entitled, an Act to regulate the means of egress
from public buildings;

Being under consideration,

Mr, Tome submitted the following amendment,

Amend 1st section, excepting the churches already built
in the counties of this State;

On motion by Mr. Brodwater,

Said bill was recommitted to the select Committee, and
made the order of the day for Wednesday next. March 6,
1867.

The following communication was received from His Ex-
cellency. Governor Swann:

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Annapolis, March 1, 1867.
To the Senate and House of Delegates,

GENTLEMEN :—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of an official communication from the President of the Sen-
ate and Speaker of the House of Delegates, informing me that
the General Assembly of Maryland had elected me a Senator
of the United States for the term of six years from the 4th of
March, 1867.

This honor has been conferred upon me, as is well known
to the members of the Legislature and my friends throughout
the State, without any agency or solicitation on my part.

It had been my purpose in response to the action of your
Honorable Body, and what was then the wish of the people
of the State, to have accepted this high trust; and I had so
expressed myself on various occasions, and more recently in
an interview with the Lieutenant Governor.

Within a short time past, however, and up to the date of
my communication to that officer on the 26th ultimo, when
my resignation was expected to be officially announced to the
Legislature, I have been visited by such appeals from the
representative men of the State, urged with an earnestness
and unanimity which could hardly be mistaken, asking my
continuance in the Gubernatorial chair, that I did not feel at
liberty to consult any individual preferences of my own, in
making up a final judgment upon this subject. I have no
right from any motive of personal ambition, in connection
with the Senatorial office, if such could be supposed for a mo-