396           JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 16,

The returns of the judges of the elections from several coun-
ties, have omitted to state the number of votes each candidate
received, but return certain gentlemen as duly elected to the
General Assembly of Maryland. The returns from the city
of Baltimore and some of the counties are in figures instead of
being in writing.

The memorial of Jervis Spencer, Alfred Brenton, John R.
Blake, George W. Sherwood, Cyrus Gault, George W. Davis,
John F. Hunter, Isaiah Gardiner and N. E. Berry, protest-
ing against the election of the Delegates in this House for
Baltimore city, their rights to seats in this House and asking
that a committee be appointed by this House, to take testi-
mony as to the frauds and violence, committed in the late
election in said city, &c, having duly considered said memo-
rial respectfully report, that the statements set forth therein,
and not supported by such evidence as under the precedents
and rules governing such cases, would justify this House in
appointing a committee as prayed.

That in the opinion of your committee this House has al-
ready expressed its sentiment upon said statements as are
contained in such memorial unsustained by evidence and con-
demned them as libels upon the people of the great commer-
cial metropolis of this State. That the said memorial satis-
fies your committee that the terror which is asserted in said
memorial to have prevailed in said city at the late election,
and to have prevented many voters from depositing their bal-
lots, was the result unquestionably of that act of the late Exe-
cutive of this State, which this House has already declared,
an invasion of chartered rights, an attempt to interfere by the
bayonet with the freedom of elections and a glaring violation
of the Constitution and laws of this State. Your committee
are therefore of opinion that there is not sufficient reason for
granting the prayer of the memorialists, and they beg leave
to be discharged from the further consideration of the same.

John W. Dail,

Chairman.

Which was read.

Mr. Morgan, from the minority of the committee on Elec-
tions, made the following

REPORT:
To the Honorable,

The House of Delegates of Maryland :
The undersigned, a minority of the committee on Elections,
to which was referred the message of the Governor, enclosing
the returns of election for the members of this House, concur-
ring with the majority of the said committee in some particu-
lars, but most earnestly and emphatically dissenting in others,