8 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Dec. 27

The Speaker pro tem administered the oath of office to the Honor,
able John S. White, of Prince George's County, as Speaker of the
Extraordinary Session of December 27? 1946.

Thereupon, the Honorable John S. White, the newly elected
Speaker, addressed the House.

ORDERS.
By Mr. Luber:

ANNAPOLIS, MD., December 27, 1946.

Resolved, That the following named persons be elected officers
of the House of Delegates of Maryland to serve during the Special
Session of 1946:

Chief Clerk—John A. Menton.
Assistant Chief Clerk—Donald Zimmerman.
Journal Clerk—George W. Owings, Jr.
Assistant Journal Clerk—Leroy S. Eckman.
Reading Clerk—Thomas Fallon.
Sergeant-at-Arms—Frederick Kemper.
Chief Page—Francis McGee.
Which was read and adopted by yeas and nays as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.—

Speaker Todd Zimmerman Adler Shure

Cecil Ward Burkins Melnicove Griffith

Johnson, J. C. Brinsfield Clark Walker

Harris Hurlock De Ran Robinson Wells

Jester Spicer Moore Rubenstein Robinson, L. H.

Murray Webb Merriken Sklar Boucher

McNulty Bryson Neal Argabright Dick

Lowman Mackie Booth Bandiere Morgan

Stromeyer Tosh Kosakowski Boone Reed, L. H.

Tyler Harvey Milanicz Luber See

Morton Joffe Norris Knox Sleeman

Hall Pumphrey Siemek Reed, J. H. Barnes

Lusby Steward Weber Baynes Benson

Carrico Cain Griffin Dodrer

Monroe Wilkinson, P. O'Dunne Grube Halm

Bustard Evans, J. W. Di Domenico Lehnert Bauman

Coleman Thomas Schimunek Frederick Carroll

Gathmann Dennis Ritter Rastenis Burroughs

Lupo Shockley Weintrau Kolb

Rockenbaugh Walters Buffington Bloom Messick

Tolle Prushour Dempsey Holzapfel Smith

Fairbank Grove Kearns Newcomer Brenneman

Larrimore Offutt McNulty Tenney Green

Shane Ramsburg O'Malley Ziegler Myers

Evans, N. Utterback West Carlock

Total—121
NEGATIVE—NONE.