1396 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Apl. 3,

Merryman, Annan, Watkins,
Banks, Grafton, Fletchall,
Seth, Lee, Wier,
Valliant, Riley, Wack,
Sudler, Dawson, Park,
Coulbourn, Williams, Waters,
Duer, McCosker, Vanderford,
Gordy, T. H. Hamilton, Galt,
Johnson, Cooper, Brown,
Hodson, C. R. Hamilton, Maclin,
Turner, of Cecil, Stewart, of B. city, Bedsworth—65.
Mackey, McAleese,

NEGATIVE—None.

Said bill was then sent to the Senate.
Mr. Gill presented the following statement from W. H.

Perot and others:

BALTIMORE, April 2d, 1874.

To the Honorable,

The General Assembly of the State of Maryland:

The Board of Examiners of Pilots cannot allow the session
of the Legislature to close without representing to your Hon-
orable Bodies—the Senate and House of Delegates—their ear-
nest but respectful remonstrance against the present attitude
of the pilot system of the Chesapeake Bay and Patapsco
River. Believing that the present inefficiency of that service
arises from all absence of competition and from the fact that
nothing is done within the existing monopoly to supply the
wants of an increasing trade, we feel assured that the evils
we have had to deplore for some time will increase instead of
diminish. We wish to relieve ourselves of the responsibility
of being identified with the execution of a law which, in
our experiences, is not suited to the purpose for which it was
anacted. We think ample power should be given to some
competent tribunal to provide a remedy for the defects in the
present law, and as the mode of redress we have suggested
has not met with the favor of your Honorable Bodies, we
must relieve ourselves of the responsibility consequent upon
holding positions without the adequate power to enforce its
operations for active good. We do not wish by this expres-
sion of our views to indicate our desire to resign our positions
as Examiners, and we will continue to labor in the future as
we have done in the past for the welfare of our community
and the protection of commerce.

W. H. PEROT,
C. MORTON STEWART,
J. STRICKER JENKINS,
GUSTAVUS LITEGEN.