RESOLUTIONS.

1835.

No. 53.

Resolution in favour of Clemency Parrish.

Passed Mar. 16, 1836

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to Clemency

Parrish, widow of Edward Parrish, a soldier of the

revolution, the half pay of a serjant during her life.

No. 54.

Resolution requesting the Senators and Members for

Passed March 19

this State, in Congress, to use their exertions

against the Expunging Resolutions.

WHEREAS, by the fifth section of the first article of

the Constitution of the United States, it is provided

that each of the Houses of Congress shall keep a jour-

nal of its proceedings; and whereas, the Senate of the

United States, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty

four, at the first session of the twenty third Congress,

did in its legislative capacity pass the following reso-

lution.

"Resolved, That the President, in the executive

proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has as-

sumed" upon himself authority and power not confered

by the constitution and laws, but in derogation of

both," which resolution consequently became a part

of the proceedings of the senate at that session; and

whereas, attempts are now making in several of the

States of this Union to cause said resolution to be ex-

punged from the journal of the house, which if carried

into effect will cause said journal not to be a record of

the proceedings of the house, hut of a part of its pro-

ceedings in utter disregard of the provision already

cited of the Constitution of the United States; and

whereas, the power to expunge the record of any por-

tion of the proceedings of the Senate, necessarily im-

plies the power to expunge or efface the whole, and may

leave the country at any time (a bare majority shall

deem fit) without an official record of the proceedings

of one or both branches of the National Legislature.