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Which was read, assented to, and sent to the Senate,
Mr. McCleary offered the following:

Ordered, That a committee of —— be appointed by the
Speaker to inquire whether the seat of Z. W Linthicum, a, Del-
egate from Dorchester county, has not been vacated by his
appointment to the office of Post Master at Church Creek, in
Dorchester county, and his acceptance thereof under the gov-
enment of the United States, since his election as a Delegate
from said county to the House of Delegates, of this State, and
that said committee have authority to send for persons and
papers, and report to this House at the earliest practical
period.

Which was adopted,

Mr. Waliis, chairman of the committee on Federal Rela-
tions, made the following report:

[See Document M.]
Which was adopted.
Also, the following resolutions:

WHEREAS, the military authorities of the Government of
the United States in Baltimore, have assumed to remove from
office the Marshal of Police of that city, an officer of the State
of Maryland, and to appoint his successor; and have further
assumed to dismiss from office the Board of Police of Balti-
more, a body clothed with high powers by the State of Mary-
land for the protection of its citizens; and have actually put
an end, by force, to the exercise, by said Board, of its lawful
and important functions; and have appointed sundry individ-
uals, in large numbers, to govern the said city, as policemen,
in contempt of the constitutional rights of the State of Mary-
land and in open and flagrant violation of its laws;

AND WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States, instead
of rebuking the wrong and usurpation aforesaid, has justified
and approved the same, under color of a "military necessity"
not known to the institutions of the country and fatal to its
liberties, and has appropriated large sums of money for the
compensation of the said unlawful Police force, so that the
members thereof are maintained thereby in daily and oppres-
sive hostility to the laws of Maryland and the rights of its
citizens, and constitute in fact a civil government, established
by Congress over the chief city of this State;

AND WHEREAS, Charles Howard, William H. Gatchell and