122 RESOLUTIONS.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent by the Speaker of
the House and President of the Senate, to the commanding officers of
the Maryland Regiments.

NUMBER 6.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Delegates of Maryland, That
the State of Maryland hereby declares its intention to assume and pay
its quota of the Direct Tax imposed by the Act of Congress of August
sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one; and the Governor is requested
to communicate this resolution to the Secretary of the Treasury of the
United States.

NUMBER T.

Sesolved by the Senate and House of Delegates, That the Governor
be and he is hereby authorized to appoint fifteen Commissioners, (to
serve without compensation,) any five of whom shall be competent to
act, whose duty it shall be to select such objects as will exhibit the skill,
productions and resources of Maryland', at the International Exhibition
of Works of Arts and Industry, to be held in London, in eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-two.

NUMBER 8.

Resolved, That the thanks of the Legislature of Maryland are due,
and hereby tendered to Lieutenant John H. Russell, a native of Mont-
gomery county, in this State, for his gallantry and daring in running
into Pensacola Harbor, directly under the guns of the enemy, and firing
and destroying the Rebel Pirate Judith ; and that in connection with
the name of Lieutenant Russell, that of Lieutenant John Glendig Spros-
ton, of the city of Baltimore, be associated; and that this General As-
sembly highly appreciate the conduct and the success of Captain Hugh
G. Purviance (a citizen of Baltimore,) of the United States Ship St.
Lawrence, in her attack and destruction of the Privateer Petrel, of the-
so-called Southern Confederacy.

NUMBER 9.

WHILE, on this twenty-second day of February, the people of the
United States are listening to words of peace and conciliation, and of
solemn warning against sectional contests and jealousies, from the Father
of their Country, Maryland, one of the States of the Revolution, makes
this solemn appeal to the citizens of the loyal States of the Union:

WHEREAS, We believe the useless and wicked agitation of the Slavery
question, both North and South, has been the ostensible cause of the
rebellion now devastating our once happy country by affording a pre-
text to those who have long desired to break up our Government, for
putting their long cherished plans in operation, and by furnishing
arguments by which the Southern people have been mislead and be-
trayed ; and whereas, we believe that a continuance of such agita-
tion will have a tendency to prevent a cordial return of our Southern
brethren to their position in the Union ; therefore,.