Excerpt from Report of the Minority of the Committee on Secret Societies, Made to the House of Delegates of Maryland A few days subsequent to the passage of these resolutions, and before any action was had by the Committee, namely, on the 17th of January last, an order was adopted by the House, authorizing and directing the Committee to examine witnesses under the solemn sanction of an oath, which order is in the words following, viz: Ordered, That the Select Committee heretofore appointed to consider and report upon all that part of the Governor's Message which relates to secret political societies be author izod and directed in their investigations to examine witnesses on oath, and that all said witnesses attending and testifying before said Committee be allowed and paid the same milage and per diem as is usually allowed to witnesses in attendance upon the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel County. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.