50 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [May 2,
Which .was adopted.
Also, proposed the following resolution :

Resolved by the House of Delegates of Maryland, (the Senate
concurring) That Otho Scott, R. M. McLane and Wm. J.
Ross be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners on
the part of the State of Maryland, to communicate immedi-
ately in person with the Pressdent of the United States in re-
gard to the present and any proposed prospective military
use or occupation of the soil and property of the State by the
General Government; and they are directed to ascertain and
report to the General Assembly forthwith, for its considera-
tion, whether any becoming arrangements with the General
Government are practicable in thai connection for the main-
tainance of the peace and honor of the State and the security
of its inhabitants.

Which was read the first, and by special order, the second
time and passed by yeas and nays, as follow :

	AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.
Kilbourn, Sp'r,	Bryan,	Sangston,
Morgan,	Wootten,	Morfit,
Rasin,	Jones, of P. G.,	Scott,
Medders,	Legg,	Bayless,
Welch,	Starkey,	McCoy,
Mackubin,	Jacobs,	Gordon,
Briscoe,	Landing,	Barnard,
Parran,	Dennis, of Wor'r,	McCleary,
Compton,	Kessler,	Goldsborough,
Burgess, Denison,	Claggett, Routzahn,	Straughn, Coudy,
Quinlan,	Salmon,	Eakle,
Renshaw,	Naill,	Brining,
Jones, of Talbot,	Brune,	Griffith,
Chaplain, Long,	Winans, Pitts,	Harding, Roop,
Lawson,	Harrison,	Gorsuch,
Holland,	Thomas,	Turner,
Maier,	Wallis,	Brown — 57.
4	NEGATIVE— None.

Mr. Wallis proposed the following message: