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The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Baltimore. (search)
Maryland Legislature. --In the Maryland House of Delegates, on Monday, Mr. Scott, of Baltimore, reported a bill for a Sovereign Convention, to meet on Thursday, the 30th of May, which was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. A petition from Prince George's county in favor of the passage by the Legislature of an Ordinance of Secession was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations, and Mr. Wallis reported that the Legislature had no such power. The report of the committee was sustained — ayes 53, noes 13 Mr. Brune recommended an appropriation of two millions of dollars to place the State in a proper state of defence.