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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

be members of said House of Delegates by the

officer or officers commanding said troops, and seated

as members, in lieu of those ejected, as aforesaid.

We do, therefore, as the representatives of the peo-

ple of the State of Maryland, hereby enter our most

solemn protest against each and all of said proceed-

ings, and we declare them to be dangerous to liberty,

in violation of the fundamental principles of free

Government, destructive of the just rights both of

the Federal Government and the Government of

the several States; and we do further resolve,

9. That the President of the United States, being

Held and con-
sidered.

by law the Commander in Chief of the Army and

Navy of the United States, and the military supe-

rior of the said Lieutenant General Sheridan, on

the said fourth day of January, eighteen hundred

and seventy-five, and ever since, and the said Presi-

dent, not having disapproved of said acts and pro-

ceedings of his said, subordinate, nor corrected the

same so far as he had the power, he must be held

and considered as having adopted and approved

thereof; and in so doing, in the judgment of this

General Assembly, he has committed a most grave

error, which the respect we entertain for the high

office of Chief Magistrate of the Country, alone

restrains us from characterizing in the proper and

befitting language of condemnation it deserves.

No. 10.

In relation to furnishing official publications to

the Maryland Historical Society.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to this General

Assembly that the Maryland Historical Society

has on its shelves only the following of the official

publications of the State of Maryland, viz :