214 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 15

By Mr. Frick: Senate Bill No. 200, entitled "An Act to ap-
propriate the sum of six hundred dollars for the purchase,
from Miss Florence Mackubin, of the portrait of Cecilius Cal-
vert, said portrait to be hung in the Capitol at Annapolis. "
[Which was read the first time and referred to the Committee
on Finance. ]

By Mr. Frick: Senate Bill No. 201, entitled "An Act to
amend Article 43 of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land, entitled 'Health, ' by repealing and re-enacting, with
amendments, the section of said Article 43, numbered 112, in
Bagby's Annotated Code of 1911, as repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, by Chapter G58 of the Acts of 1914 of the
Genera] Assembly of Maryland, said section being under the
sub-title, 'Practitioners of Medicine. '" [Which was read the
first time and referred to lire Committee on Sanitary Condi-
tion of State. ]

INTRODUCTION OF RESOLUTIONS.

By the President, by request: Joint resolution proposing
that application be made to Congress, under the provisions of
Article 5 of the Constitution of the United States, for the
calling of a convention to propose an amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States whereby polygamy shall be pro-
hibited, and Congress shall be given power to enforce such
prohibition by appropriate legislation.

WHEREAS, It appears from investigation recently made by
the Senate of the United States, and otherwise, that polygamy
still exists in certain places in the United States, notwith-
standing prohibitory statutes enacted by the several States
thereof; and

WHEREAS, The practice of polygamy is generally condemned
by the people of the United States, and there is a demand for
the more effectual prohibition thereof by placing the subject
under Federal jurisdiction and control, at the same time re-
serving to each State the right to make and enforce its own
laws relating to marriage and divorce; now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate, the House concurring:

First—That the application be made and hereby is made to
Congress, under the provisions of Article 5 of the Constitu-
tion of the United States, for the calling of a convention to
propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, whereby polygamy and polygamous cohabitation shall
be prohibited, and Congress shall be given power to enforce
such prohibition by appropriate legislation.