JOINT EVOLUTIONS.

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State in that body, and it is due to the State and
the country that such vacancy should be filled,
we will, therefore, in accordance with the provis-
ions of the Act of Congress, at the proper time,
proceed to fill such vacancy.

JOHN LEE CARROLL,
J. F. LEE,
C. H. HYLAND,
HENRY SNYDER,
JOHN C. PARKER,
Committee on part of the Senate.

EDWARD J. CHAISTT,
A. S. PERCY,
JOHN R. BLAKE,
JOHN W. HARDEN,
T. E. WILLIAMS,
CHARLES F. WENNER,
DAVID SEIBEET,
Committee on part of the House of Delegates.

Fill vacancy.

No. 6.

Joint Resolution to repay to Henry P. Rose and
others the amount paid by them respectively on
receiving commissions as Constables, which com-
missions have been decided by the Court of Ap-
peals to be void.

WHEREAS, The Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more did, in the month of November, in the
year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
seven, under a mistaken view of their powers
under the Constitution and laws of the State,
undertake to appoint as Constables for said city
the following named persons, that is to say :
For the First ward, Henry P. Rose, John Bat-
tee, Horatio Wallace and William H. Bryan ;
for the Second ward, William J. Smith and
William J. Bowling ; for the Third ward, Peter

Preamble.