96 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [May 9,

Mr. Brune presented the following :
To the Honorable, the Senators

and Representatives of the Legislature of Maryland:

Gentlemen:—The undersigned memorialists, Merchandize
Brokers of Baltimore, respectfully represent, that they have
heretofore paid a License to the State of Maryland, each year
of three hundred dollars. ($300.) They further represent
that trade is prostrated and commerce paralized, by the civil
war, blockade and danger to all property which now per-
vades our once happy country. Therefore, they pray your
Honorable Bodies, to suspend the collection of said licenses
for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, (1861) or by
statute or simple resolution, repeal the payment of sixty-six
per cent. (66) thereof, until the year 1863, when peace and
commerce shall have been restored again to our distracted
land.

And as in duty bound, they will ever pray, &c.

WILEY & HOOQEWUFF,
WHITE & ELDER,
S. P. THOMPSON & CO.,
BRAMAN & PEARSON,
JOS. R. SNYDER,
HYLAND & WOOD.

Which was read and referred to the committee on Ways
and Means.

Mr. Quinlan presented the petition of W. Parker and fifty-
three other citizens of the 11th district of Baltimore county,
asking for a soverign convention of the people of this State ;

Which was read and referred to the committee on Federal
Relations.

Mr. Goldsborough presented the memorial of Tench Tilgh-
man, Maj. Gen. Second Division M. M., to the General As-
sembly of Maryland;

Which was read and referred to the committee on Military
Affairs.

Mr. Chaplain offered the following :

Ordered, That the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom
the memorial of Gen. Tench Tilghman was referred, be in-
structed to investigate the subject and report as speedily as
possible ;

Which was adopted.