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aggrieved at the publication of the aforesaid report, in which
it is represented that he has received money from the con-
tingent fund for which he has never accounted. And your
memorialist is especially aggrieved that a majority of your
committee should have made such a report reflecting so seri-
ously upon him, throwing upon him before the people of the
State such imputations, when in point of fact the refutation
of such charges and imputations were resting and remaining
in the Executive Department at Annapolis, within a few
steps of the said majority of the committee. And your me-
morialist cannot help observing the peculiar pain and hard-
ship he feels from the circumstance, that of all the numerous
persons who upon some account or other have received some
portion of the said contingent fund, he should be the only one
singled out in the aforesaid majority report as a mark for
the censures of the said majority. Your memorialist would
beg leave only to state that before any committee of your
Honorable body undertakes to condemn a public officer in a
matter of expenditure, they ought at least to examine his
accounts, recorded within a few feet of their place of meeting,
the existence of which should surely be known to the com-
mittee. And your memorialist, humbly representing the
injustice that has thus been done to him, and requesting that
the same may be duly repaired and corrected, will ever pray
and so forth.

George P. Kane,
Inspector 3d Division Maryland Militia.

The Secretary of the Senate delivered the following mes-

By the Senate:

February 26th, 1858.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates:

We respectfully request you to return to us the bill enti-
tled, "an act to make valid certain deeds to Thomas C. Ris-
teau, herein described, for certain lands in Baltimore county,
which was passed by this body on the 23d instant.

By order,

C. Harwood,

Secretary.

Which was read and assented to; also,
Delivered the following message: