266 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [June 17,

MONDAY, June 17, 1861.

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

Present at the call of the roll the following members:

Messrs. Kilbourn, Spk'r, Durant, Morgan, Rasin, Medders,
Parran, Ford, Denison, Jones, of Talbot, Chaplain, Maxwell,
Miller, Bryan, Jones, of P. G., Starkey, Jacobs, Landing,
Kessler, Johnson, Salmon, Naill, Straughn, Goldsborough,
Warfield, Brune, Pitts, Harrison, Wallis, Sangston, Morfit,
Scott, Eakle, Brining, Fiery, Gordon, Barnard, McCleary,
Roop, Mills, Brown.

The proceedings of Saturday were read.

The following communication was received from the Exec-
utive per hands of Thomas J. Wilson, Esq.:

STATE OF MARYLAND,

EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
Frederick City, June 14, 1861.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates:

From your journal of proceedings of the 12th inst., I learn
that a committee has been appointed by your Honorable body
"to examine the Executive Records, and call for such persons
and papers as they may deem proper, to enable them to as-
certain and report to this House, without delay, the precise
character of the relations established by the Executive of this
State with the Federal Government since the commencement
of our existing national troubles."

I have heretofore had the honor to inform you, in response
to an order, that I had "furnished your Honorable body with
copies of all correspondence between myself and officers of the
General Government, which I deem it necessary to lay before
you." In making that response, officially, and in good faith,
it did not occur to me that my veracity would be impugned
by a co-ordinate branch of the State government, with which
1 have earnestly endeavored to maintain harmonious rela-
tions. Certainly it did not occur to me that a paltry parti-