616            JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 26,

said George P. Kane, stating that said stores were in the
magazine at Fort McHenry, and so far as your committee
still knows, has no acknowledgment, receipt or instrument of
writing, from the storekeeper or other proper officer of that
fact. Your committee repeat here that they did not know
said Kane in this matter. They were very unwilling to as-
sail in any way, the action or motive of any one acting under
the unfortunate orders of the late Governor, in that business;
and they have done no such thing. They have spoken of the
acts of the Governor. Whenever they impute wrong to
others, it will be a proper time for others to complain.

Your committee respectfully call the attention of this
House to certain expressions of the memorial, and they
take leave to say that if the deposit of arms, &c, was made,
as alleged in the memorial "for the purpose of preventing
their being purloined by the lawless bands of deluded and in-
furiated fanatics who were then engaged, without restraint,
in robbing the ordinary depositories of the State's arms and
military stores." Such is the language of the complaints.
Then it shows a very inadequate performance of duty on the
part of those who had called out six regiments, of six hun-
dred men each, fully armed and equipped, and yet were
obliged to seek a store-house for their ammunition under the
protection of the guns at Fort McHenry; and in answer to
the remark in the memorial, touching the duty of this com-
mittee to examine accounts before they condemn a public
officer in a matter of expenditure, your committee asserts that
this House is the proper judge of the manner in which they
have performed their duty; and that such remark comes with
a bad grace from a memorialist, who, while complaining of
such things, speaks of his commanding officer as a personal
friend of, and a political and partizan sympathiser with his
Honor, the then Mayor of said city. Meaning thereby, as
your committee understand it, that such commanding officer
was, in so far as he was such friend and partizan sympathizer,
not impartial and free as a military officer, to discharge his
duty under the orders of the Governor.

Finally, your committee have to say that the members of
this committee who did not sign the report have submitted
their own views to this House, and did not find any just
cause to complain of any injustice done to the memorialist or
any person, other than the late Governor.

Your committee ask to be discharged from the further con-
sideration of the said memorial, and that the memorialist
have leave to withdraw.

All of which is respectfully submitted,

John S. Sudler,
Chairman Committee of Contingent Fund.