24 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [April 30,

TUESDAY, April 30,1861.

The House met, and was opened with prayer by the Rev.
Mr. Seymour.

Present at the call of the roll, the following members :
Mr. Kilbourn, Speaker, Durant, Morgan, Rasin, Medders,
Welch, Mackubin, Briscoe, Parran, Compton, Burgess
Ford, Worthington, Denison, Quinlan, Renshaw, Jones, of
Talbot, Chaplain, Dennis, of Somerset, Lawson, Keene,
Holland, Maxwell, Bryan, Wootten, Legg, Starkey, Jacobs,
Landing, Dennis, of Worcester, Kessler, Claggett, Routzahn,
Johnson, Salmon, Straughn. Goldsborough, Warfield, Brune,
Winans, Pitts, Harrison, Thomas, Wallis, Sangston, Moffit.
Scott, Wilson, of Harford, Bayless, McCoy, Coudy, Eakle,
Brining, Griffith, Harding, Barnard, McCleary, Roop, Gors-

uch, Mills, Turner, Brown.

The proceedings of yesterday were read.
On motion of Mr. Maxwell it was

Ordered to be entered upon the journal, that if he had
been present upon yesterday he would have voted in favor of
the majority report from the committee on Foreign Relations,
upon the petition of 216 voters of Prince George's county.

Mr. Sangston offered the following order :

Ordered, That the committee of Conference on the part of
the House, acting in connection with the committee on the
part of the Senate, have permission to sit during the session
of this day;

Which was adopted.

On motion of Mr. Goldsborough.

Leave was granted the Judiciary Committte to report a
bill repealing the 1st, 2d, 4th and 6th sections of the XXII
Article of the code of Public General Laws.

Mr. Dennis, of Somerset, proposed the following:

WHEREAS, In the disturbed condition of the country, it is
right and proper that the condition of this State should be
defined. And whereas, it is also right and proper, that the
people should have an opportunity to exercise their right to
determine what measures shall be adopted to restore its peace
and prosperity, therefore be it