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Resolutions in relation to the Message of the late
Governor of Maryland.
WHEREAS, His Excellency, the Governor of the
State of Maryland, has transmitted to the
Senate and House of Delegates, his annual
Message and Documents therewith, in which
he has given an account of his proceedings re-
lative to calling forth the Military in the City
of Baltimore, on the day of the last election in
that city, And whereas, it appears by his
statement that he visited said city on the twen-
ty-eighth day of October last, and immediately
addressed a communication to the Mayor, stat-
ing "that representations from a large number
of most respectable citizens, of the condition of
things in that city, added to his own conviction
of his Constitutional duty imposed upon him the
obligation, respectfully, to consult the Mayor
of the city, as to what provision should be
made by him, (the Mayor,) to guarantee per-
sonal security, and the free exercise of the
suffrage by the legal voters at the approaching
election;" And whereas, it appearing by said
correspondence, that the Mayor, in reply in-
vited His Excellency, "to furnish him with any
reliable evidence upon which he could legally
act, of a combination on the part of any of the
citizens of said city, to obstruct the laws at the
approaching election; and also informed His
Excellency, that he deemed his powers to pre-
serve the peace to be ample; and that in view
of the emergency, he had "in addition to the
usual complement of officers assigned to the
stations, and various election precincts, acting
immediately in concert with the judges, togeth-
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Assented to
March 10, 1858.
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