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Upon this motion Mr. Merrick asked the yeas and nays, which
appeared as follows:

Yeas—Messrs. Merrick and Smith. Nays—Messrs. Kennedy,
Hall and Goldsborough.

Mr. Merrick then moved that the following named persons, who
he had been advised were at some time members of the Order,
but who had withdrawn from it, should be summoned to testify
before the committee, viz: Messrs. Hall, Forrester, Hutchins,
Sterling, Disney, McClintock, Ourdorf, J. B. Brashears, and Or-
rick, who are mentioned above.

Upon being asked by the Chairman what particulars he expected
          to prove by them, Mr. Merrick stated that he could not tell what

a witness would prove, especially on a subject of this nature, until
the witness was placed under examination; but he had been in-
formed that these persons could give testimony, material and im-
portant, to the inquiries the committee were charged with, and he
wished them therefore to be summoned to testify to each and every
point submitted to their investigation, and upon this proposition he
called for the yeas and nays, which appeared as follows.
Yeas—Messrs. Merrick and Smith. Nays—Messrs. Kennedy,
Hall and Goldsborough.

Mr. Merrick then moved that the following named persons, be-
lieved to be now members of the order, be summoned to testify on
the subject of their investigations before this committee, viz:
Messrs Cross, Dulaney, Lee, Whitney, Harris, S. Hinks, C. D.
Hinks, Spicer, Kemp, and Griffith, herein before mentioned, and
upon this motion he asked the yeas and nays, which appeared as
follows, viz:

Yeas—Mr. Merrick, Mr. Smith. Nays—Mr. Kennedy, Mr.
Hall, Mr. Goldsborough.

Whereupon the committee adjourned to meet again on the sum-
mons of the chairman.                           WM. D. MERRICK,

THOS. B. SMITH.

                                        Friday, February 8th, 1856. ,

The committee met in obedience to the call of the chairman.
Present, all the members.

The majority, Messrs. Kennedy, Hall and Goldsborough, slated
that they deemed it inexpedient to summon any witnesses to testify