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firmation, only at the regular sessions of the Legislature. I

therefore decline to accede to your request.

THOS. H. HICKS.

Which was read, and referred to the Committee on Executive
Nominations.

A bill, entitled, An act appropriating a sum of money to com-
pensate Joseph E. Baternan, Sheriff of Harford county, for extra
official services rendered under the authority of the Governor,

Was taken up, read the second time, and ordered to be en-
grossed for a third reading.

Mr. Heckart, from the Committee on Militia, submitted the fol-
lowing

REPORT:

The undersigned, a majority of the Committee on Militia, to
whom was referred the petitions laid before the Senate in relation
to a 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 the 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.
Which was read.

Mr. Stone, from the Committee on Militia, submitted the fol-
lowing minority

REPORT:

We, the undersigned, a minority of the Committee on Militia,
to whom was referred "An act to make valid the commission and