AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. President, Miller,
Biggs, Parker,
Browne, Sellman,
Carroll, Snyder,
Clarke, Spates,
Earle, Stephenson,
Fields, Timmons,
Henkle, Welch,
Hyland, Wilson—19.
Malone,
NEGATIVE—None.

Said bill was then sent to the House of Delegates.

Mr. Clarke, from the Joint Special Committee, to whom the,
subject was referred, submitted the following

REPORT.
To the Honorable,
The General Assembly of Maryland:

The undersigned, the Committee appointed by virtue of
a Joint Resolution of your Honorable Body, passed January,
1870, to the end that this Legislature may know what dispo-
sition has been made of the funds heretofore appropriated by
the State for the National Cemetery at Sharpsburg, Wash-
ington county, by the Trustees of said Cemetery, would most
respectfully report that in obedience to said Joint Resolution,
they had before them in Joint Committee, Thomas A. Boullt,
Esq., the Secretary and Treasurer of said Cemetery, and from
him learned that the sum of fifteen thousand dollars had been
received from the State of Maryland, and expended in the
construction of said Cemetery, and that by virtue of an Act
of 1868, chapter 104, the sum of five thousand dollars was
appropriated for the interment of the Confederate dead, who
fell in the battles of Antietam, South Mountain, Monocacy
and Crumpton Gap, and that said sum so appropriated as afore-
said, still remains in the Treasury of the State. Your Com-
mittee would further report that the requirement of the Act
incorporating the Antietam National Cemetery, making it the
duty of the Trustees to devote a portion of said Cemetery to
interment of said Confederate soldiers has been persistently ig-
nored and violated, and the said Trustees finally in Dec., 1869,
refused to allow the said Confederate dead to be interred with-
in the said Cemetery. In view, therefore, of the said sum of
five thousand dollars, so as aforesaid appropriated, not yet
being used, and of the persistent refusal of said Trustees to
allow the requirements of the charter in this respect to be
carried out, and in view of the fact that the remains of many
thousands of Confederate soldiers now lie scattered along the