148 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [June 6,

ment of men, and should there await the return of said messenger.
During the evening the messenger returned without any orders of
your Excellency, but accompanied and followed during the night
by three several additional detachments, numbering in all, over
eighty men, and the whole force, under the command of Colonel
Baylor, of the Virginia forces, took forcible possession of the
mules, boat and grain, in defiance of the protest of the under-
signed, and with the repeated threats to shoot him, unloaded the
giain, sent part of it over the bridge at Point of Rocks into Vir-
ginia, and other portions of it had been transferred to cars on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and taken to Harper's Ferry. All
the grain in the boat was appropriated by the military, and the
boat, mules and hands were left in their hands, when the under-
signed came to Frederick to seek redress; and on his return,
found that the hands with said boat had been permitted by the
military to return with the boat and mules to Berlin.

The cargo of said boat, seized by said military and appropria-
ted to its own use, consisted of two thousand bushels of oats, of
which the selling price at Georgetown, on the 26th day of April,
the day on which said boat would have arrived, and said cargo
been ready for sale, was seventy-five cents per bushel; two hun-
dred bushels of white corn, of which the selling price on said day
was $1.20 per bushel; six hundred bushels of yellow corn, of
which the price as aforesaid was $1.05 per bushel; and twenty-
five bushels of wheat, of which the price as aforesaid, was $1.75
per bushel. From that time to the present, said boat, with team
and hands, has been unused, wholly because the undersigned has
feared similar seizures. The average earnings of said boat and
team has been about $10 per day, which has been lost entirely to
the undersigned.

Your Excellency will understand that all the occurrences afore-
said, were on the soil of Maryland. The undersigned respect-
fully appeals to the constituted authorities of the State, of which
he is a citizen, for indemnity and vindication, on account of the
outrage which has been perpetrated upon him; and has the honor
to be,

Your Excellency's humble servant,

CHARLES F. WENNER,

STATE OF MARYLAND,

Frederick County, to wit:

I hereby certify, that on this 30th day of April, 1861, before
the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland,
in and for Frederick county, personally appeared Chas. F. Wen-
ner, and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that