EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1017

in the year nineteen hundred and nineteen, attain the age of
seventy years.

Be it Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Honorable B. Harris Camalier be, and he is hereby, con-
tinued in office as an Associate Judge of the Seventh Judicial
Circuit of Maryland until the first Monday in the month of
November, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, if he shall so
long live.

Approved March 19th, 1918.

NO. 4.

A Joint Resolution urging Congress to pass the bill (H. R.
5777) providing for the payment of $200,000 to the City of
Frederick, Maryland, which sum was exacted from the City by
the Confederate troops under General Jubal Early on July 9,
1864, under penalty of burning said City.

WHEREAS, the Confederate troops under General Jubal Early
demanded $200,000 from the City of Frederick on July 9,
1864, and the corporate authorities were compelled to pay the
said amount in order to prevent the burning of the said City;

AND WHEREAS, for a period of over a quarter of a century
there have been frequent attempts to obtain through Congress
a refund of said ransom to the City of Frederick;

AND WHEREAS, the people of Frederick were always loyal
to the Union but the General Government had failed to protect
the City and State from invasion and destruction;

Be it Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Congress is urged to pass the bill introduced in the House of
Representatives (H. R. 5777) by Representative Zihlman, of
Maryland, providing for a refund to the City of Frederick of
$200,000;

And be it further Resolved, That a copy of this Resolution
be sent by the Governor under the Great Seal of the State to
the President, a copy to the President of the United States
Senate, and a copy to the Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives.

Approved March 19th, 1918.