166 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS June 8,

March, 1860, and which, by the Constitution, requires confirma-
tion by the Senate.

Which was read and adopted.

Mr. Whitaker submitted the following:

Ordered, That it be entered on the Journal of the Senate, that
the Senator from Baltimore city is detained from his seat by in-
disposition.

Which was read and adopted.
On motion of Mr. Smith,

Leave was granted Messrs. Smith, Duvall, and Blackistone to
report a bill to amend the 88th section of the 7th Article of the
Code of Public Local Laws, refitting to Carroll county.

On motion of Mr. Smith,

Leave was granted Messrs. Smith, Duvall, and Blackistone to
report a bill to legalize and make valid the acts, doings, and pro-
ceedings of the "Burgess and Commissioners of Unionlown," in
Carroll county.

Mr. Heckart, from the Committee on Militia, submitted the
following

REPORT:

The undersigned, a majority of the Committee on Militia,
to whom was referred the petitions laid before the Senate in rela-
tion to the bill now before the Senate, entitled, "An act to make
valid the commission of Tench Tilghman, as Major General of
the Second Division of Maryland Militia," beg leave respectfully
to report—

That they have had the charges contained in said petitions
under consideration, and are satisfied that all the charges therein
made have not the slightest foundation in truth, and that they are
unworthy of any further consideration on the part of the Senate.

The petitions are duplicates of each other, and were manifestly
prepared by the same hand, and sent to the different parts of the
State for signatures.

Your committee, therefore, re-report favorably the bill re-com-
mitted to them, expressing a hope, that it will pass the Senate by
a unanimous vote; and your committee ask to be discharged from
any further consideration of the matter of said petitions.

J. J. HECKART, Chairman;
THOMAS J. McKAIG,
THOS. FRANKLIN.