1856.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.            829

preferred against him, &c, manifest a wish to know the causes
that led to the election of another gentleman to the place which
he had formerly filled.                                     

It is impossible to speak with any degree of positiveness as to
the motives of the individual trustees. But those who had been
accustomed to attend the meetings of the Board could not have
been forgetful of the repeated occasions that Dr. Sparks had been
before them for violating the laws of the Institution upon the com-
plaint of both his fellow professors and the students. The excitement
in the College which he produced on those occasions, was felt by
the Board to be highly injurious to its good order and success.
The books which contain the proceedings on these occasions—
the same as those already referred to as open for the examination
of the members of the Legislature,—were equally accessible to
all the Trustees. If any were ignorant or indifferent as to his
past conduct, and cared not to inform themselves of it, those who
knew it all, had no disposition to press it on their attention.

Those interrogatories are addressed to the Board of Trustees, as
such, and are now answered by the committee appointed for that
purpose, and not as individual members. Answering then in this
delegated capacity we cannot speak with any degree of positive-
ness of the motives of the different members. But we have every
reason to believe, that if they are inquired of as individuals, they
will not hesitate to make such explanations of their proceedings
on the occasion of the recent re-organization, as will satisfy the
committee that their action was governed by a proper regard for
the interests of the College, and by no other motives or consid-
erations whatever.

The Senate bill entitled, an act amendatory of an act to in-
corporate Chesapeake city in Cecil county, passed March 1st,
1850, chapter 271,

Was read the second time, and                                         

Three-fourths of the members concurring, the said bill was
read the third time and passed by yeas and nays as follows:

	Affirmative.
Messrs. Dorsey,	Frazier,	Whitby,
Neff,	Scott,	Kennedy,
Waters,	Stubbs,	Smith of Balt. city,
Wilson of Calvert,	Bowie,	Abbott,
Dowell,	Rolph,	Harrington,
Stone,	Parker,	Loughridge,
Chilcoat,	Brengle,	Corby,
Rankin,	Carper,	Hall,
Roberts,	Grove,	Tower,