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1876.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 1177
Ford, Waters, of Dor., Constable, Ward, Snowden, Gwynn,
Cockey, Neal, Purnell, Riggs, Hinks, Naill, Rutledge,
Boyle, Vandiver, Culbreth, Goldsborough, Rusk, Berke-
meier, Lewis, McWilliams, Hoblitzell, McGlone, Stewart,
McAleese, Gill, Chaisty, Harig, Banders, Fenton, Scott,
Farrow, Ranger, Jones, Griffith, Rawlings, Sprigg, Brown,
Rinehart, Lamotte, Donaldson, Clark, Dashiell, Gordy.
Barnard, Browning—64.
Mr. Lewis presented the following memorial of citizens of
Baltimore :
To the Honorable,
The Senate and House of Delegates of Maryland:
WHEREAS, The citizens of the City of Baltimore, assembled
in the Rialto Building, in pursuance of public notice, have
learned with surprise and regret, that a bill has been intro-
duced into the House of Delegates of this State, to suspend the
operation of the laws of this State, known as the Sunday Laws
in this city and in Baltimore county, during several months
of this Centennial year of our National existence, and recur-
ring to the principles of civil government, upon which our
fathers founded our institutions for the perpetuity and preser-
vation of the good order, peace, morality and safety of the
State; and recurring also to the duty devolved upon the
people of our State, and especially upon nil who are entrusted
with authority therein in the several departments of it«
government, to maintain unimpaired the safeguards of peace,
quiet and social order, and preserve from desecration the
Sabbath day, we do, therefore, most respectfully and earnestly
protest against the passage of the said bill, and do resolve as
follows, to wit:
First. That the advocates of the said bill, in proposing
only a temporary suspension of the said laws, impliedly
admit one of the two facts, viz : 1st, that the said laws an
wise, just And necessary, as permanent safeguards of the good
order, quiet and morality of the community, and ought to be
maintained in their full vigor, except during the specified
months of this Centennial year ; or, 2d, that, although the
said laws do not commend themselves to the advocates of tht
said bill, as wine, just and expedient safeguards, yet, they art
so strongly entrenched in the good sense, sound judgment and
religious sentiment of the large majority of our law-abiding
citizens, and the determination to maintain them intact amd
at all hazards, as evidenced by the resolutions of the im-
mense ad memorable assembage of citizens in the Hall of
the Maryland Institute, a few years ago, was so emphatia
and imposing that the advocates of the said bill have uttterly
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