106 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [May 10,

whom was referred the question of the adjournment of the two
Houses, submit the following report:

The Committee do not think it expedient or proper that there
should be an adjournment sine die, but recommend that the two
Houses adjourn on Monday afternoon next, 13th of May, to meet
again in Frederick city on the 1st Tuesday of June, 1861, at one
o'clock.

JAMES F. DASHIELL,
Chairman of Senate Committee.

J. H. GORDON,
Chairman of House Committe.

Mr. Smith submitted, on the part of the minority of the Com-
mittee, the following

REPORT:

The undersigned, a minority of the Committee appointed to
confer in regard to the adjournment of the Legislature, respect-
fully reports that he is constrained to differ from the majority in
the conclusions at which they have arrived. He believes that the
agitation of the exciting questions which now disturb the public
mind, cannot at this time be productive of good, and that the
interests of the State would be subserved, and the wishes of a
very large majority of the people consulted, by an early adjourn-
ment, sine die, of the Legislature. The undersigned therefore
recommends that the Legislature adjourn on Saturday, May 11th,
inst., at 12 o'clock M., sine die.

JNO. E. SMITH.
On motion of Mr. Blackistone,

A call of the roll was ordered, when the following Senators
answered to their names:

Messrs. Blackistone, Duvall, Dashiell, Franklin. Gardiner,
Goldsborough, of Talbot, Goldsborough, of Dorchester, Heckart,
Kimmel, McKaig, Nuttle, Smith, Stone, Townsend, Watkins,
Whitaker—16.

The Sergeant-at-Arms returned, and reported that he had
notified the absent Senators that their attendance was required at
the Senate Chamber.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates delivered the following:
bill:

A bill, entitled. An act to add new sections to article 28, of
the Code of Public General Laws, relating to the rights and
duties of County Commissioners.