648          JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS          [Mar. 10,

compelled to return to those whose representatives we are, to ren-
der an account for the manner in which we have discharged the
trusts which were so generously confided to us.                     

We met, the most of us strangers to each other; we part, all
of us, I believe, as sincere friends. Towards myself there has
been nothing but affability, courtesy, kindness. And, notwith-
standing I brought but little experience to the discharge of the
duties to which your partiality in the beginning called me, and
have doubtless fallen often into error, the broad mantle of your
charity has been thrown around me, and no word of complaint
has been permitted to reach my ear. To the home from which I
have long been separated, and whose fireside joys I shall with so
much eagerness seek again, I will carry nothing but the most
pleasant and happy recollections. In that privacy to which my
inclination and my duty call me, I shall often recur to the scenes
in which I have been permitted to mingle in this Hall, and recall
with delight the expressions of friendship and respect with which
I have been greeted from day to day by undissembling lips, warm
hearts and willing hands.

To the faithfulness, gentlemen, with which you have dis-
charged the duties you were called upon to meet, I beg to add to
the testimony of an approving conscience my own humble and
Unhesitating attestation.

It only remains for me to bid adieu to you, and to invoke the
choicest blessings of heaven upon you in the vocations which,
under Providence, you have been called upon to pursue, and to
wish that the days of you and yours may be "long in the land,"
and prosperous.

On motion of Mr. Hall,                               

The said address was unanimously ordered to be entered on
the Journal.

The Secretary of the Senate returned the following bills:

A bill entitled, an act to regulate and restrict the granting of
licenses to retail intoxicating liquors in this State,

Endorsed "rejected by yeas and nays."

Also, a bill entitled, an act for the relief of Edward A. Tal-
bott, late sheriff of Howard county;

Endorsed passed by yeas and nays."                         

Also, a bill entitled, an act to limit the places for retailing cer-
tain articles in the city of Baltimore:                         

Endorsed "passed by yeas and nays."