220 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [June 10,

America, were adopted by the General Assembly of Maryland
on the 14th day of May; therefore be it

Resolved, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Represensatives of the State of Maryland in the Congress of
the United States at the approaching extra session 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;

Which were read the second time and rejected by yeas and

nays as follow;

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs.

Durant, Chaplain, Winans,
Welch, Holland, Harrison,
Parran, Bryan, Morfit,
Compton, Wootton, Scott,
Denison, Legg, Griffith,
Quinlan, Starkey, Gordon,
Renshaw, Warfield, Mills,
Jones, of Talbot, Brune, Briscoe—24.

NEGATIVE.
Messrs.

Kilbourn, Spk'r, Landing, Sangston,
Rasin, Kessler, Wilson,
Mcdders, Routzahn, Bayless,
Ford, Johnson, McCoy,
Dennis, of Som't, Naill, Brining,
Stanford, Straughn, Fiery,
Lawson, Goldsborough, McCleary,
McIntire, Thomas, Gorsuch,
Maxwell, Wallis, Brown—28.
Miller,

On motion of Mr. Wallis,

The vote by which the resolutions were rejected was recon-
sidered, and the resolutions were put upon their second read-
ing—being upon their second reading,