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1548 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDUfGS [Apl. 3,
recommending: a bill of that character, and the reasons he
assigned for it." This testimony of Mr. Claggett shows
cleary and positively that the interview of Col. Woolford
with the Committee on Finance, occurred just as detailed to
your Committee by Col. Earle, and that Col. Woolford was
endeavoring to secure a pension fur a man in Somerset county,
who, as subsequent events, painfully proved, was not entitled
to it.
MT. Claggett further swore, that "before Col. Eavle told
me in 1874, that it was a pension bill, my memory was clear
that it was a pension bill; I am sure the bill was in reference to
the war of 1812 " Mr. Claggett recollected distinctly that
nothing was said about a draft, or that "this relief was for a
person who had been illegally drafted, but that the bill was
to grant "a yearly allowance" to a man in Somerset county.
Your Honorable Body will recognize in the names of the
persons testifying in this case as presented by your minority,
gentlemen who have occupied many high and important
positions in public life, who have been honored with the peo-
ple's confidence, and who have jealously guarded that confi-
dence, and left their offices of trust and honor with integriety
and character unstained and irreproachable; whose ve-
racity has never been questioned, and which is beyond sus-
picion. With the testimony of such men before it, unshaken
and unimpaired, the only opposing testimony being of a
negative and uncertain character as presented in the report
already before your Honorable Body, your Committee is com-
pelled to perform the unpleasant duty of submitting this
minority report.
D. H. NEWCOMER,
On the part of the Senate.
J. H. FARROW,
JOHN TURNER,
On the part of the House.
Which was read.
Mr. Barnard, Chairman of a Select Committee, reported
favorably,
The Senate bill entitled an Act relating to Justices of the
Paaee in and for Garret, Allegany and Carroll counties, with
proposed amiendment.
7 AMENDMENT PROPOSED.
Sec. 1, line 9, add after the word "originate," "and pro-
vided futher, that the provisions of this bill shall not effect
districts numbers four, five, six,and fourteen, in Allegany
county."
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