114 RESOLUTIONS.

NUMBER 10.

RESOLUTION requesting the Governor to return to the State Armories the Arras
taken from the uniformed companies of the State.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Delegates of Maryland,
That the Governor be requested to return to the Armories of the State,
the arras which have been removed by his order from said Armories,
and deposited in Fort McHenry, or placed in the hands of ununiformed
companies or associations of individuals, and that he return to all regu-
larly organized and uniformed volunteer companies of the State, the
arms reclaimed from them, or either of them, by his order.

NUMBER 11.

RESOLUTION appointing days for the adjournment and re-assembling of the

General Assembly.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That when the
Senate and House of Delegates adjourn on Tuesday, the twenty-fifth
of June, they adjourn to meet in the city of Frederick, on Tuesday, the
thirtieth day of July next, at twelve o'clock, M.

NUMBER 12.

RESOLUTIONS remonstrating against the unlawful arrests of citizens of Maryland
and the manifold usurpations and oppressions of the Federal Government.

WHEREAS, Ross Winans, a member of the House of Delegates of Mary-
land, from the city of Baltimore, on his way to his home from the
discharge, of his official duties, on the fourteenth of May last, was
arbitrarily and illegally arrested on a public highway, in the presence
of the Governor of this State, by an armed force under the orders of
the Federal Government, and was forcibly imprisoned and held in
custody, thereafter, at Annapolis and Fort McHenry, without color
of lawful process or right, by the command, and at the arbitrary will
and pleasure of the President of the United States ;

AND WHEREAS, sundry other cit'zens of Maryland have been unlaw-
fully dealt with in the same despotic and oppressive manner, by
the same usurped authority, and some of them have in fact been re-
moved by force beyond the limits of the State of Maryland, and the
jurisdiction of her tribunals, in utter violation of their rights, as citi-
zens, and of the rights of the State, as a member of the Federal
Union ; and

WHEREAS, the unconstitutional and arbitrary proceedings of the Federal
Executive have not been confined to the violation of the personal
rights and liberties of the citizens of Maryland, but have been ex-
tended into every department of oppressive illegality, so that the
property of no man is safe; the sanctity of no dwelling is respected,
and the sacredness of private correspondence no longer exists; and,

WHEREAS, the Senate and House of Delegates of Maryland, recogniz-
ing the obligations of the State, as far as in her lies, to protect and
defend her people against ursurped and arbitrary power, however
difficult the fulfilment of that high obligation may be rendered by