The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-03
GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 0F MARYLAND.
SPECIAL SESSION.
Appointment of State Comptroller

SPECIAL SESSION.
appointment OF State Comptroller.
FREDERICK, May I'm the bill relating to th
stay OF execution, reported in the House yesterday
the word payments" was erroneously telegraphet
Instead Of he word Judgments " or DEGREES.
ihe Governor has appointed DR.. D. Claude, O
Annapolis, Comptroller.
SENATE.
Frederick, Nav 2.-The Senate met in executive
session and adjourned till four o'clock
EVENING SESSION.
The resolutions from the House. appointing
Messrs. Scott, McLane and Ross, Commissioners ia
| Washington were c0Dcurred in.
AIR. lELLoTT reported bill to pr0yide for the
! follows: N
WheredS The present extraordinary state of the coun
try and the disturbed condition the people demand
tAa prompt and efficient should be adopted by
the GENERAL Assemble of Maryland to safety
ana peace of the people, and to avoid the evils and
| OF civil war; therefore
| Be i enacted bg the Gcaercl assembly Of Marylqnd
HAT Ezekiel T. Chambers, Of Kent county John V l..
Mcmahon and Thomas Winans, of Baltimore city Thos
6 Pratt. of Anne Arundel county Enoch Lewis Lowe,
of Frederick county, and Walter Mitchell of Charles
county together with the Governor of the State of Mary
land time being or whoever may he lawfully act
ing in the capacity. be and they hereby appointed
Beard Of Pubic Safety in and for the State of Maryland
board may be authorized under the provisions Of
TINS or any supplemental act; and,
Bet enacted, That the Board of Public Safety so con-
tituted and appointed shall have full power and au-
horlty to provide for the better organizatiOn arming
aud regulation of the militia of this State and may re,
move and appoint any officer of the militia above the
RANK ofcaptain and commission any such appon
in the and under the great seal Of the State
Maryland and the said Board Of Public Safety shall have
full power to provide the protection safety peace and
defence of the State; and be it any vacan
cy shall occur in the said Board it may be filled by
majority OF the remaining members of said Board and
the person or persons appointed shall hold office until
one month after the commencement Of the regular
session Of the General Assembly of Maryand provided
nevertheless in the event of Sovereign Con vention being
elected BY the of Maryland in pursuance Of call
OF the present or of any succeeding General Assembly
said Board of Public Safety shall he subject such
Sovereign Convention, which Convention shall have
power to any or all of the members OF said Board
OF Public Safety; and,
BE enacted That said Board of Public Safety shall
report any all OF their acts and proceedings the
efa Assembly of Maryland, whenever required to do
by order resolution adopted by majority of all the
members of each branch thereof and the members said
Board of Public Safety. before entering upon
OF their Office shall take and subscribe the following oath
affirmation:
That in any and every appointment removal to be
made by the Board of Public Safety authority
given to them by law will in case and under no
preext appoint remove any officer OF the militia or
other person for account of his political opinions
or for any other than the fitness un-
fitness of such person in my best Judgment the place
to which he shall be appointed from which be shall be
Be enacted That the members of said Board except
the Governor of this State shall be entitled to compensa
ton at the rate dollars per month"; payable month
ly; and
Be ii enacted That the sum of - dollars as contin-
gent fund he and is hereby appropriated to carry out
the provisions of this law and that all orders drawn by
the Board of Public Safety of Maryland
shall be paid out of said appropriation such orders
drawn to be attested by the signatures of at least
members of SAID Board; and
Be ii enacted That this law shall take effect from and
after the date Of its passage; and
BE At enacted That sections Q IL and IS of Article ~
relating to the Governor Of the Code of Public General
Laws and sections "A, 81 So a. 35. S. 81 S. So 40 4
So, 6l, II, Sc 81 &c. l03, 07 and Ill of Article 63
relating to the militia of the Code of Public General
Laws, in so far the are in any nconsis
tent with the provisions of this be and the
hereby repealed.
The bill was strenuously opposed by Messrs.
Smith and kmmell, but finally ordered to a
second reading by ayes IA, nays s, as follows:
Ayes-Messrs. Brooke Blackiston, Duvall, Franklin,
Townsend. Watkins, Whitaker Yellott.
Nays-Messrs. Bradley, Goldsboough of Talbot Colds
borough of Dorchester, Miles, Nutte, Smith, Stone,
Kimme
The Senate then adjourned till O'Clock, when
the bill as indicated by the above vote will proba-
bly, pass the Senate.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
FREDERICK, Nav 2.-The Speaker presented a
number of communications of an apparently tri-
Hing character, which were referred, without
being read, to the Committee on Federal Rela-
tiOns.
Leave was granted to different members to report
bills to pay sundry persons for delivering copies of
the Governors proclamation, calling the extra
session. to members OF the Legislature all of which
were referred to the Committee on Claims.
Also, to pay the owners of the steamer Pioneer |
Tor their services.
Several petitions Of private and local character
Were according to the practice of the House, re-
ferred to the next General Assembly.
Mr.. PITTS obtained leave to report a bill to create
an additional volunteer division in Baltimore CITY, |
to be called the Guard Division. Referred
message was received from the Governor |
enclosing the following communication, dated
April 30th
The undersigned citizens of Washington and Frederick
counties, Maryland pray that your ExceIlency will
be Influenced to official action by memorial that will be
presented to your EXcelency by committee appointed
at informal meeting held at Weaverton, April 2oth
1851 Your petitioners assure you that a meeting
used against Virginians expetives as punderers
rapscalions, cowardly rebels thieves, &c. The memo
rial did not receive more than twenty votes many of the
undersigned refusing to vote and opposing from disgust
of the proceedings We your EXcelency that as
far experience goes and most of have farms
Harpers Ferry and would have every knowledge Of
depredaons committed by troops, that their demeanor
towards Mayanders has been generally very courteous
The grievances complained of in the memorial
authorized by the commanding officers of the forces at
lIarpers Ferry, and formal sent by the
at Haper's Ferry to the citizens of
Weaverton, assuring them that authority had been
given troops to search houses in Maryland, and that
no such authority would be given them. The evidence
before the meeting proved that only one house |
entered by them, and that peaceaby; and that they
returned to Harpers Ferry as soon requested by |
our citizens to discontinue the search.
Signed by James H. EIgiu and eighteen Others !
The paper was referred.
1t was entered upon the journal that James NJ. |
Dennis, of Somerset county, is absent,f from domes
tic afliction.
teeto consist of one from each county of the State
and two from the city of Baltimore-be elected as
delegates to the Convention to be held in Frank.
fort, Kentucky, in response to her call to consider
the present crisis in country, and in connection
with Kentucky and the other Slaveholding States |
in Convention, endeavor tn work out an adjust |
ment of our national troubles. Referred to the
Committee on Federal Relations
Mr.. GORDON reported that the Committee on the
Judiciary having had evidence before them of the
of Mr.. Wilson, of Cecil county,
they could take no action upon the subject of the
petition, asking the House to Instruct the Speaker
to issue his warrant for a election, and asking
to be discharged from its further consideration
Adopted.
Mr.. GORDON, Chairman of the judiciary Com
mttee, reported the bill to exempt from execution
the property of debtor to the amount of $500,
with an amendment exempting Sl00, instead of
$500, which was adopted by ayes 3O nays %.
Aves-Messrs. Kilbourn. Speaker; McKubbin, Brscoe,
Jones of Talbot Chaplain, Long, Lawson, Holland Mil
ler Jacobs Landing Kessle- Clagett Rouzahn, Sal
Wallis, Sangston, Mortt, Scott Bayless Gordon, Bar
nard, Roop, Gorsuch-30
Nays-SIessrs Morgan Rasin. Medders Welch, Parran,
Compton, Burgess Dennson, Quinlan, Renshaw BRYAN,
Wootten Jones of Prince Georges, Legg Sarkey, Den
mis- of Worcester Sraughn Goidsborouhh. Mccoy Cou-
dy Eakle. BruiRg Griffith, Harding, McCleary, Turner,
Brown-27.
The bill was then passed-ayes so.
Nays-Messrs. Durant, Burgess, kenshaw Lawson,
Jacobs, Landing, Dennis of Worcester, and Goldsbo.
rough.
The bill, if passed by the Senate, will take effect
on the lst of June.
Mr.. WALLIS offered the following:
The Committee Federal Relations ask leave respect
fully report that they have duly and carefully
sidered the communca ion from his Honor the Mayor
of Baltimore which was referred to them enclosing
copy Of joint resolution of the branches Of the City
Council OF said city in the following words:
ReSOlred by both Branches of the City Council of Balt
That the Mayor be and he is hereby requested
communicate with the General Assembly Maryl and
in session. for the purpose Of procuring such action
that body may i'll their Judgment, be most adVsa
BILE bring about early restoration of the communi
cations by the different railroads and other means be-
the city of Baltimore and other parts of the coun
,rv az NAV entirely consistent with the safety and
welfare of the city and State.
1t is impossible the Importance of the sub
jec to which the attention of the General Assembly is
thus directed The almost total interruption of direct
communication between Baltimore and the North,by the
destruction of the bridges upon the Northern Central and
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Delaware Railroads. IS an
evil aggravated character only in itself but
its manifest bearings upon the prosperity of the State
and its commercial metropolis. On the other hand, in
the face of danger which would inevitable, il
facilities invasion offered to the fnatical and
excited multitudes OF Northern cities-whOse ami
mostly to Baltimore and Maryland is measured by
no standard known to Christian civilization, and who
publicly threaten destruction. without subordna-
ton even to the Federal authority-it could hardly
be consistent with the commOnest prudence to reopen
Indeed if it the pleasure of the General Assembly
to provide for such measure, security would cer
tany for its permanent enforcement during the
continuance of the natural excitement which now dis
turbs our people The instinct of selfpreservaon is
far more powerful than ansense Of obedience to law
and coupled it is in the present with every
be sure to override the ordinary restraints which
f government is capable of imposing 1t would be of
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