692 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 4

Simmons, Green, Stevenson, Collins, Dodson, Jack-
son, Milbourne, Miles, Riggan, Hopkins, Murphy,
of Dorchester, Keys, Ray, Wells, Walls, Butler, Wil-
son, Dennis, Kirbin, Crawford, Harrison, Harry,
Smith, Carroll, McComas, Goslin, Willey,Bosse, Lip-
man, Norris, Hall, Murphy, of Baltimore city, Orem,
Roth, Dawkins, Durham, Grant, Linthicum, Moore,
Godwin, Lock, Miller, Pairo, Baker, Charles, Mitchell,
Tennant, Amiss, Johnston, Lansdale, Williams, Feaga,
Loar, Stump, Jenkins, Haines, Kain, Oursler, Gill,
Pearre, Bennett, Harvey, Howard—72.

The Journal of March 4th was read and approved.

PETITIONS, MEMORIALS AND OTHER PAPERS.

Mr. Dodson presented petition of William B. New-
man and 76 other citizens of Talbot county, protesting
against the enactment of the Haman Oyster bill.

Which was read and referred to the Committee on
Chesapeake Bay and Tributaries.

To the House of Delegates of the State of Maryland:

As representing both branches of the Religious So-
ciety of Friends in Maryland, we desire to make an
earnest protest against the enactment into law of two
bills now before the Maryland Legislature; the one re-
quiring separate accommodations for the races in pub-
lic conveyances, and the other restricting the suffrage
in the State.

Upon many occasions in the past, members of the
Society of Friends have felt it right to assist the
colored people, endeavoring always to improve their
condition physicially and to elevate their mental and
moral standards.

In the present crisis, we feel that a great mistake is
about to be made in the proposed legislation, which in
our judgment will push the colored man back towards
barbarism, and at the same time injure the whites by
causing the latter to become the active instruments of
injustice.

The former bill, by excluding the colored people
from the public conveyances occupied by the whites,
brands them as inferior and unworthy to mingle with