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fact held at the time military possession of the city of Baltimore,
at once suspended the active operation of the Police Law, and
put for the time off duty all the officers and men, who could not,
without violating both the letter and the spirit of the Law, recog-
nize the authority, or be subject to the control of any other head
than the Board of Police. Accordingly, the Board unanimously
adopted a resolution to that effect.

On the following Monday morning, the 1st of July, about the
hour of 3 o'clock, all the members of the Board, with the excep-
tion of the Mayor, were arrested in like manner by order of Gen.
Banks at their respective residences, and taken to Fort McHenry.
One of them, Mr. C. D. Hinks, was after a few days confinement
allowed to return to his own home, on parole, upon the represen-
tations of his physicians, that owing to his state of ill-health his
life would be seriously endangered by a continuance of his imprison-
ment. The other Commissioners, Messrs. Howard, Gatchell and
Davis, constituting a majority of the whole Board, have ever since
been confined in Fort McHenry; but they have been this morning
officially notified that they are to be removed in the steamer Ade-
laide to some other place, at 6 o'clock this evening.

The undersigned, Charles Howard, William H. Gatchell, and
John W. Davis, further respectfully report, that being deprived of
their liberty without legal process, and the Courts of Justice as
well of the United States as of the State of Maryland being pre-
vented by the military power of the former from affording them
any relief, they addressed to the Congress of the United States a
memorial, asking that any charges made against them might be
speedily investigated, and thai the grievances of which they
complain might be properly redressed. To that memorial were
appended copies of the two proclamations issued by Gen. Banks
in reference to the Board of Police, and of the preamble and reso-
lutions adopted by the Board in reference to the first of said
proclamations. The undersigned respectfully ask leave to submit
herewith as a part of their report, copies of the above mentioned
memorial to Congress, and to refer to the same, and to the docu-
ments appended thereto, for more full information in reference to
their proceedings, and to the views by which they have been
governed.

All which is respectfully submitted,

CHARLES HOWARD,
WM. H. GATCHELL,
JOHN W. DAVIS.
GEO. WM. BROWN,

Mayor and Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Police.
FORT MCHENRY, July 29th, 1861.