1858.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.           615

Reported favorably on a bill entitled, an act to authorise
the trustees of Providence Chapel to sell and dispose of cer-
tain property therein mentioned ;

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Mackubin, from a select committee, reported favora-
bly on a bill entitled, an act to exempt from taxation, the
property of the various Churches in the city of Annapolis;

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Smith, of Baltimore county, from a select committee, re-
ported favorably on a bill entitled, an act to provide for the
more speedy collection of State and County taxes in Baltimore
county ;

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Sudler, of Somerset, from the committee on the Con-
tingent Fund, made the following

REPORT:

The committee on the expenditure of the contingent fund,
placed at the disposal of the Executive, to which was referred
the memorial of George P. Kane, Inspector of the Third Di-
vision of the Maryland Militia, complaining of injustice done
to him, and of his being condemned in his expenditures as a
public officer, in the report submitted by said committee,
respectfully beg leave to report,

That they have read the said memorial," and have read
again those portions of their former report, of which the me-
morialist complains, and they find no reason to change or al-
ter, in any manner, anything therein stated.

It is not true as alleged by the memorialist, that this com-
mittee represented that the said "Kane received money for the
contingent fund, for which he has never accounted." The
committee made no such charge or statement. They stated
what is the fact, that the sum of $273.09 was to pay George
P. Kane, for cartridges furnished by him. The committee
never imputed any blame to said Kane, so far as they had
any reference to him; they supposed him sheltered behind the
late Governor, and did not know said Kane in the matter at
all, other than as the party to whom the money was paid.
Their business was to inquire by whom it was paid, and for
what purpose: and to express their opinion upon the proprie-
ty of the expenditure. That they have done, without regard to
those who lent themselves to the late Governor or aided his
proceedings in Baltimore. And in their statement, that it
had not come to your committee's knowledge what dispo-
sition had been made of them, (the amunition) the committee
referred to the late executive, who had only filed a letter from