1868.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 251

Mr. Hamilton replied as follows, in writing:

Gentlemen: Your communication informing me of my
election by the General Assembly of Maryland as Senator of
the United States for the term of six years from the 4th of
March, 1869, you were pleased to deliver to me in person.
In accepting this important trust, allow me to express my
deep sense of the distinguished honor conferred upon me by
the representatives of the people of Maryland, and that pro-
foundly impressed with the responsibilities attached to the
position, especially in view of the present unhappy condition
of our beloved country, it shall be my earnest endeavor to
merit the great confidence reposed in me by a diligent, faith-
ful and conscientious discharge of duty. Actuated, in com-
mon with yourselves and those you represent, solely by con-
siderations for the general good, and the safety and welfare
of a once prosperous and united people, be assured that it
shall be my constant aim to co-operate with all patriotic men
in restoring, unimpaired, the just and equal relations of all
the States under the Constitution, promoting peace and har-
mony, cultivating friendship and good will, cherishing the
observance of law and of order, reviving and reinvigorating
our industrial interests, now perishing in the South and lan-
guishing in other parts of the Union, and in maintaining and
preserving for all time our constitutional form of government,
and with it securing to ourselves and to our posterity all the
precious blessings which did always and will still attend its
rightful administration. Accept, gentlemen, for yourselves,
my sincere thanks for your personal consideration. With.
great respect, I am your obedient servant,

WM. T. HAMILTON.

To Messrs. Fields, Parker, McElroy, Beck, Coudy and

Herbert.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

JAMES W. McELROY,

Chairman.

HORATIO BECK,
JAMES COUDY.

Which was read, and ordered to be entered on the
Journal.

_ Mr. Boyer from a Select Committee, reported favorably a
bill entitled an Act to repeal sections one hundred and twenty-
four and one hundred and thirty of the Code of Public Local
Laws, relating to the corporate authorities of the town of
Millington in Kent county, and to enact a substitute for said
sections.

Which was read a first time.