46                           JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS                  [Mar. 13

MESSAGE TO THE SENATE

HOUSE OF DELEGATES

ANNAPOLIS, MD., March 13, 1958.
By Mr. Boone:

We propose, with your concurrence, that when the General Assembly
adjourns today, it stand adjourned, sine die.

By order,

GEORGE W. OWINGS, JR.,

Chief Clerk.
Which was read and adopted.

MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE
SENATE OF MARYLAND

ANNAPOLIS, MD., March 13, 1958.
By Senator Turnbull:
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates:

We have received your Message, proposing that when the General
Assembly adjourns at 1:45 o'clock P. M., it stand adjourned, sine die.

By order,

J. WATERS PARRISH,

Secretary of the Senate.
Which was read and ordered Journalized.

MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

ANNAPOLIS, MD., March 13, 1958.

Mr. Speaker and Members of the House:

This is to thank you and commend you for a job well done in one of
the most unusual and most arduous periods of legislative activity in Mary-
land's governmental history.

The Budget for fiscal 1959—the prime purpose of your convening—is
in balance with revenue provided.

The fact that final decisions in this regard consumed considerable
time beyond the Constitutional allotment and brought you into today's
extra-ordinary session serves to demonstrate once more that the process
of democracy in government with all its seeming confusion in the course
of deliberation, is indeed a serious and systematic business, and the order
that arises at last from, the cross-fire of disagreement is better, stronger
and more effective because of the heat to which it was submitted.

As we approach the coming fiscal year our financial situation is grati-
fyingly good, tested as it was in the crucible of conflict and tempered in
the air of debate.