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1876.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 409
the commencement of the present session. These portraits
were copied by an accomplished Maryland artist, and for-
warded to the "Committee for the restoration of the Hall of
Independence in Philadelphia."
The Select and Common Council of Philadelphia acknowl-
edged the receipt of the contribution by a vote of thanks to
Governor Groome, and through him to the State of Mary-
land. They sent him a copv of their official action, hand-
somely engrossed and framed, the receipt of which was men-
tioned by my predecessor in his executive message, although
the resolutions themselves have not been officially communi-
cated to the General Assembly.
now transmit to you these resolutions in the form they
were received, desiring they may also be communicated to
the House of Delegates.
JOHN LEE CARROLL.
As also the following resolutions named therein:
RESOLUTION OF THANKS.
To Governor Groome and the State of Maryland:
RESOLVED, By the Select and Common Councils of the City
Philadelphia, that the portraits of Thomas Stone, William
Paca and Thomas Johnson, Governors of Maryland, and
three of the foremost patriots of the Revolution, be accepted
and placed in Independence Chamber, in the places reserved
for them by the Committee on Restoration, &c.
That the thanks of the corporation of the City of Phila-
delphia are due, and are hereby cordially tendered to his Ex-
cellency, Governor James Black Groome, and through him to
the State of Maryland, for their munificent contribution to
the National Portrait Gallery of Independence Hall.
A. WILSON H. ENSLEY,
Attest: President of Common Council.
Jos. H. PAIST,
Clerk of Select Council.
R. W. DOWNING,
President of Select Council.
[Seal's Place.]
W. S. STOKLEY,
Mayor of Philadelphia.
Deposited in Independence Chamber.
FRANK M. ETTING,
Chairman of Committee on Restoration, &c.
Which were severally read.
Also, returned
The bill entitled a farther supplement to an Act passed at
December Session, 1825, entitled an Act to incorporate the
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