INDEX. 425

FEDERAL RELATIONS, COMMITTEE ON—

Order reported from, that a committee be ap-
pointed with powers to examine the Executive re-
cords, and ascertain and report to this House the
precise character of the relations established by
the Executive with the Federal Government, since
the commencement of our national troubles, read
the first time, 229; read the second time and
adopted, and committee appointed, 244; message
from the Governor, in relation thereto, referred to
said committee, 266.

Also, resolutions protesting against the illegal
arrest of Ross Winans and other citizens, and the
tyrannical exercise of military jurisdiction within
the State, by the Federal Government and re-
questing our Senators in Congress to present them
to the U. S. Senate, &c., read the first time,
229-30, further considered 244, 253,262, 279, 286;
read a second time, and passed, 292; returned
from Senate passed, 313.

Senate resolutions relative to the destruction of
the property of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Company, referred to, 251; reported favorably,
and passed, 276.

Senate resolutions of Mr. McKaig, referred to
313.

Petition in favor of the release of Manuel C.
Causten, imprisoned in Virginia ; referred to,
318.

Resolutions from, requesting the Governor to
return to the State Armories the Arms, removed
to Fort McHenry by his order, &c., passed, 320.

Communication presented from the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, relating to the Board
of Police Commissioners, (Document L,) referred
to the committee on Federal Relations, 340.

Senate resolution proposing that the committee
on Federal Relations of the two Houses act as
joint committee on the Memorial of the Baltimore
Police Commissioners, (Document .L,) concurred
in, 364; report thereon made, read a first and
second time, and passed, and 25,000 copies ordered
to be printed, 365; returned from Senate passed,
381.