284 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Aug. 1,

A bill, entitled, An act to amend the 93d Article, section 253,
of the Code of Public General Laws, relating to the bonds of
Registers of Wills;

Which was read the second time, and ordered to be engrossed.

On motion of Mr. McKaig,
Three-fourths of all the Senators concurring,

Said bill was read the third time, and passed by yeas and nays
as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. Brooke, President; Lynch,

Blackistone, AlcKaig,

Franklin, Stone,

Goldsborough, of Talbot; Townsend,

Heckart, Watkins,

Kimmel. Whitaker—12.

NEGATIVE—NONE.

Said bill was then sent to the House of Delegates.
Mr. Whitaker submitted the following

MEMORIAL:
To the Honorable the General Assembly of Maryland:

The undersigned, Commissioners of Police of the city of Balti-
more, have the honor respectfully to report:

Thai from the date of their report made to your Honorable
Body in May last, they continued faithfully to discharge the
duties imposed on them by the Laws of the State, until Thursday
morning, the 27th of June. At an early hour on that day, Col.
George P. Kane, the Marshal of Police, was arrested at his resi-
dence by a body of military, acting under an order of Maj. Gen.
Banks, in the service of the United States, and was taken to Fort
McHenry, where he is still confined. A few hours afterwards,
the Board were called on by Col. Kenly, who read to them an
order of General Banks, appointing him Provost Marshal, and a
proclamation by the same officer, announcing to the citizens of
Baltimore that the Marshal of Police had been arrested, and that
the official authority of the Board of Police was "suspended."

The Commissioners of Police having maturely considered their
duties and obligations under the Law by which they held their
appointments, could not avoid the conclusion that such action on
the part of an officer of the General Government, who in point of