1861.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 215
Mr. Compton presented the following:

To the Honorable,

The General Assembly of Maryland:

The memorial of A. Lingan Jarrett, of Harfard county,
humbly shows, that on the 10th day of March, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty, he was declared elected to the office of Comp-
troller of this State by the House.of Delegates, and immedi-
ately thereafter entered into bond as such in the form and
penalty prescribed by the Code, with Otho Scott and Henry
D. Farnandis, Esquires, two good and sufficient securities.

That on the sixteenth day of said month he presented said
bond to His Excellency, Thomas H. Hicks, Governor of Mary-
land, and asked that the said bond might be approved by him
and your memorialist sworn into office. That His Excellen-
cy, although certifying to the suffiiency of the security on
said bond, denied the election of your memoralist as declared
by the House of Delegates, and refused to administer to him
the oath of office prescribed by the Code.

Your memorialist then took and subscribed the said oath
before a Justice of the Peace in the presence of the Governor,
and delivered the same to the Secretary of State for record.

Your memorialist further shows, that being advised Ly
counsel, that the certificate of the Governor upon his bond
was a virtual approval of the same, had it recorded in the
office of the court of Appeals, and demanded of William H.
Purnell. Esq., who was in possession of the Comptroller's
office, said office, together with the books and papers apper-
taining to the same, and he refused to deliver the possession
thereof, denying the authority of your memorialist to demand
the same.

Your memoralist further shows, that he has caused pro-
ceedings for the State's Writs of Mandamus to be instituted
in the Circuit court of Anne Arundel county, for the purpose
of placing him ia possession of said office, but that the Gov-
ernor not only denies the legality of the election of your
memorialist, but also the right and power of the Court to
issue a Mandamus against him, and by the technicalities of
the law, has prevented said suit from being brought to an
issue, and it consequently remains undetermined.

Your memorialist therefore prays, that inasmuch as he has
exercised with due diligence all the means and power at his
command to obtain the office to which he was duly declared