172 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [June 5,

NEGATIVE.
Messrs.

Kilbourn, Sp'r, Maxwell, Winans
Rasin, Miller, Pitts,
Briscoe, Bryan, Harrison,
Parran, Starkey, Thomas,
Compton, Landing, Wallis,
Ford, Dennis, of Wo'r, Sangston,
Worthington, Kessler, Morfit,
Denison, Claggett, Scott,
Quinlan, Salmon, Griffith,
Renshaw, Naill, Gordon,
Chaplain, Goldsborough, Mills,
Dennis, of Som't, Warfield, Turner,
Long, Brune, Brown—40.
Stanford,

Mr. Roop presented the petition of ninety-one citizens of
New Windsor, Carroll county, in relation to an adjournment
sine die of the Legislature.

Which was read and referred to the select committee.

Mr. Chaplain offered the following preamble and resolu-
tions;

WHEREAS, A series of resolutions accompanying the report
of the Committee on Federal Relations of the House of Dele-
gates, indicating the policy which justice and humanity dic-
tates to be pursued by the State of Maryland in the present
crisis in our National affairs, and her desires as a sovereign
State with reference to the policy which ought to be adopted
by the Federal Government toward the Confederate States of
America, were adopted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land on the 14th day of May; therefore be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Representatives of the State of Maryland in the Congress of
the United Spates at the approaching Extra Sessiop of that
legislative body be, and they are hereby instructed to urge
and vote for an immediate recognition of the independence
of the government of the Confederate States of America.

Resolved, That the Speaker of the House of Delegates and
the President of the Senate, together, forward to the Hon.
James Alfred Pearce and the Hon. Anthony Kennedy, the
Representatives of the Sovereign State of Maryland in the
Congress of the United States, a copy of the report of the
Committee on Federal Relations and the accompanying reso-
lutions, together with these resolutions and instructions;