36 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [May 8,

leave to report to your Honorable Bodies, that owing to the
Legislature having been convened at the City of Frederick, and
that in consequence a large proportion of the members have had
a greater distance to travel than they would have had, had the
Legislature been convened at the Capital of the State; they,
therefore, are of opinion, that those members who have had their
travel increased by the removal of the session, ought to be paid
in proportion to the increased distance, at the rate of four dollars
for every twenty miles, computed by the most direct mail route.
Neither should the mileage of those members whose travel has
been diminished by the removal, be pro rata diminished, because
the Governor's proclamation having designated Annapolis as the
place of convening, when first promulged, many members re-
paired thither, under the belief that the session would be held
there. They, therefore, submit the following resolution :

Resolved, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
sum of eighteen dollars, in addition to their usual mileage, be
paid to each of the Senators and Delegates from the following
county's Court House and Baltimore city: Cecil, Kent, Talbot,
Queen Anne's, Caroline, Dorchester, Somerset, Worcester, St.
Mary's, Charles, Calvert, Anne Arundel, Prince George's, Mont-
gomery, Harford, Carroll, Baltimore county and Baltimore city.
Your committee would farther remark, that though the order of
both Houses, under which they act, looks to the adoption of
some fixed rule for the adjustment of mileage, yet in view that
the present session is an extra one, and the Legislature assembled
at a different place from that in which it has hitherto always
assembled, they have concluded that it would be best to leave, to
future Legislatures the duty of permanently fixing the mileage.

All of which is respectfully submitted,

JAMES W. MAXWELL.
B. A. WELCH,
F. B. F. BURGESS,
THOS. FRANKLIN,
S. J. BRADLEY.
Which was read and concurred in.

Mr. Goldsborough, of Talbot, moved a suspension of the rules,
to give the resolutions a second reading.

Three-fourths of all the members concurring,
Was read a second time.

On motion,
Three fourths of all the Senators concurring,