1858.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.          617

Which was read.

On motion of Mr. Contee,

The following memorial accompanying the report was or-
dered to be printed on the Journal:

To the Honorable,

The House of Delegates of Maryland:

The memorial of George P. Kane, of the city of Baltimore,
most respectfully represents to your Honorable body ;

That in a report presented to your Honorable body a few
days since from a majority of the committee on the contingent
fund placed at the disposal of the late Executive, the follow-
ing comments are made upon one of the items of the account
of said fund, which is of some interest to your memorialist.

After expressly excepting some of the items of said account
to the correctness of which the majority of the said committee
cannot as they say agree, the said report specifies, as follow :

"Of these warrants, No. 101, for $273,90, was to pay George
P. Kane, for cartridges furnished by him to be used on the
singular occasion above mentioned."

"Those cartridges, were not used, so far as your committee
can discover, nor has it come to our knowledge what disposi-
tion has been made of them."

Upon the occasion referred to in the said majority report,
when his late Excellency, Governor Ligon, found if neces-
sary, to visit the city Baltimore for the purpose of taking care
that the laws should be faithfully executed, your memorialist
was in commission as the inspector of the third division of the
Maryland Militia, which comprised all the citizens of said
city liable to military duty except the light division, which
position he had held for several years preceding that time.

In the due performance of what he regarded as his constitu-
tional duty in the then exigencies the said Governor made a
requisiton on the commanding officer of the said division for
six regiments, to consist of six hundred men each, properly
officered and equipped.

Thereupon the said commanding officer issued through your
memorialist to the commanding officers of the required num-
ber of regiments, through their respective commanding officers
of brigades, the necessary orders, in compliance with the re-
quisition referred to; and it became the official duty of your
memorialist to see those orders properly executed by the en-
rollment and embodiment of the aforesaid regiments, with
orders to hold them in complete readiness to be of avail in the
contingency contemplated by the Governor.

The said commanding; officer, as your memorialist, begs