Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-04-06

cent session of the Legislature the following
resolutions, reviving the existing Militia
Laws, were passed:
By THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES,
March 9th, 1913.
Resozred by the General assembly of
MARYLAND, That the commanding officers
of the several Military divisions, bri gades,
regiments and companies in the State Of Ma
rvIand, be and they are hereby required to
enroll or caused to be enrolled, their severaI
and respective commands. on or before the
fourth day Of July next, and report return
of the same to the Adjulanr General Of Ma
ryland, on or before The first day of Sep
temberneXt.
Resolved, That the name of any Militia
officer Of this State failing to comply with
The above requisi,ions shall be stricken
from the roll Of Militia appointments in this
Stale
ResozUed, That all existing acts Of assem-
bly, regulating the Militia and Militia train
ings, be and they are hereby declared in
full force and virtue in law, and that there
shall be at least in each and every year, two
company parades for drill and discipline on
the LIST Saturday in April and June in each
wear, and that there shall be at least one
Battalion or Reg mental parade Gin dlscre
ton of the field officers) for drill and disci
pine on the first Saturday in August, and
that there shall be a, least one RegimenIaI
or Brigade parade (in the discretion of the
General oflicers) for drill and discipline on
the first Saturday in November, and also
sreh parades of the company and field Off
GERS for drill and discipline not exceeding
four in any one year, as in the opinion OF
The general field officers may be necessary
to proper degree of instruction in their
respective duties, and that all fines, forfeit
lures and penalties allowed to be inflicted
under the &C, of 1884, chapter 25l for nom
attendance and other causes therein recited,
upon the days of parade above named, be
and the same are hereby declared to attach
to all officers and militia of this State and
to be in full force.
ReSOfued, That the commission of any
Militia officer in this State who does no,
provide himself with the necessary and pro-
per uniform for his rank and command, on
or before the first day of October next, and
so report to the Adju,ant General of this
State, is hereby declared to be vacated and
his name stricken from the roll.
Resolved, That the Adjulant General Of
Mary land be and he is hereby ordered and
directed to furnish copy of these resolu-
lions to the commander of each division and
brigade in the Stale on or before the first
day of June next.
The New Minister to the United States
appointed by the Provisional Government
of France is VI. TRACY. The National In
lelligencer says
He is The son Of the distinguished DEs-
TRUTT TRACY, a work from whose hands
documentary upon Monlesquleu) was trans
lated nearly forty years ago by Mr. JEFFER-
SON, after his retirement from public life, and
in the translated form was published in the
city of Philadelphia.
The son who comes out as Minister to
this country, Is, we are lad to learn, gen.
,leman of character as well as talent, such
as to enti'le him, aside from the impor'an,
object of his mission, to kind and cordial
reception. He will be more welcome as
being connected, by marriage, with the iami-
Iy of LAFAYETTE.
The Minister from the late Government
of France to the United States, M. PAGEoT,
is understood to have apprized this Govern
men,, as soon as the news Of the overthrow
of Government was fully confirmed, that he
no longer considered himself the representa-
live of the French Government to the u
ni,ed States.
DEATH OF JOHN JACOB AsToR.-He died
of old age, in N. York, on Wednesday
morning, the 29:h ult., about 9 o'clock, in
the SIS year of his age. Mr.. Aston was
born in the village Of WALDORF, near the an
Gent city Of Heidelberg, in the Grand Duchy
of Baden, Germany, in July, 1863, of hum
bic parents. In March, of the year 1854,
he arrived in Baltimore, as Storage pas
senger, from England, after long voyage.
His whole property then consisted of seven
flutes, and few articles of merchandize.-
These he sold, aud engaged as clerk with
Robert Bovine, who, at that time, was en-
gagged in the fur business. From this small
beginning he went on to increase his fortune,
until, at his death, he was not worth less
than twenty millions of dollars.
AMERICANS IN PARIs.-Two letters from
Americans in Paris appear in the Boston
papers-one from George Summer IN the
Advertiser, and one from S. G. Goodrich in
the Courier Mr.. Summer thinks tina, the
result Of the National Assembly convoked
on the 20lh of April will be the adoption OF
our constitution; a President and two Cham
hers. From his intimacy with Lamartlne,