Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1854-03-16

tee believed common prudence would for
bid. Three modes of disposing of this
part Of the repor, occurred TO your commit
tee one to refer it to the next Legislature ;
another to report bill, embodying The rules
recommended in the rcport, as we have
done in that on conveyancing, without CIV
ing it any examination or expressing any
opinion on the subject; the third, 10 recon-
mend that tho Governor be requested to
call an extra session Of II Legislature.
The objection 10 the first were at once
apparent. II after two long sessions and an
in,ermisson Of one year, we have found il
out of our power carefully to examine the
report on conveysncing Of the some fifty
pages, how could we expect the next Leg
lslature, after an in,ermission Of two years,
to examine and pass upon report Of over
two hundred pages on a subject infinitely
more complex and subtitle in lis operations
To this also must be added, that the CON-
missioners have informed your committee,
that by October nex', the balance of the re-
port comprehending the rules of practice, of
over three hundred pages will be complet-
ed and we may add further, ,ha, the COM
missioners for the codlfcation of the laws,
inform US that the new code will be CON-
ple,ed and ready to be reported by the first
Of January next. These facts satisfied your
committee that j, would be utterly impossi-
bic for the next Legislature to give it that
careful consideration which its importance
demands.
To pass into law the rules of pleading
recommended ia that report, notwihsland
ing the grea. ability and legal acumen dis
played in the report, your committee deem
ed improper, and were unanimous IN the o.
pinion, that such course could not be JUS
tilted, as it might leopard great interests in
The State. The interests TO be affected by
such course are too important; complica-
led and vital, TO be carelessly or lightly
dealt with.
The remaining proposition was TO recon-
mend call OF an extra session Of the Legis-
a,ure in January next, when the reports OF
the commissioners now under consideration
and the new code Of laws, might all be act
ed on. On this proposition, the committee
were divided; but mejorlly of the COM
mittee b lieving that the importance Of the
subject demanded it, and that without an
extra SESSION u COuiu NV uC o'tCuueu W.
concurred in the recommendation. The
regular session of the Legislature being lin
tied by the constitution to little over six
" days, will always be fully occupied by
the usual demand for general legislation
The necessity for change in the rules OF
pleading and practice, is no longer an open
question. 1t is settled by the constitution
and the mode pointed out by which it is
to be accomplishment nothing is now
left, or will not be by January next, fol the
completion and accomplishment of the
object of the trainers Of the constitution, bu,
the action of the Legislature. To pass the
cub ice. the next Ergi=fature, the mi
nori.y of your committee believe would be
in fact to pass it over TO an extra session.
to be held some three years hence; for to
an extra session it must eventually come, il
it ever receives from the Legislature tina,
consideration which its importance demands
All of which is respectfully submitted.
(Signed by
THOMAS !. McKAIG, Chairman,
and twelve others of the Com