HOUSE JOURNAL

SPECIAL SESSION

Annapolis, Md., January 6, 1969. State of Maryland, to wit:

This being the day appointed by the Governor for a Special Session of the General Assembly the House of Delegates assembled at 12:00 M.

Prayer was offered by Hon. Lester Reed of Allegany County.

THE STATE OF MARYLAND

Executive Department

PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND

Convening the General Assembly of Maryland in

Extraordinary Session at Annapolis, Maryland

Monday, January 6, 1969, at 12 Noon

Pursuant to the powers vested in me, as Governor, by Article II, Section 16, and Article III, Section 14, of the Constitution of Maryland, I, Spiro T. Agnew, Governor of the State of Maryland, do hereby proclaim and convene a Special and Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly of Maryland to commence at 12 o'clock noon on January 6, 1969, in the State Capitol in the City of Annapolis.

GIVEN Under My Hand and The Great Seal of the State of Maryland, in the City of Annapolis, this 2nd Day of January, In the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-Nine.

By the Governor Spiro T. Agnew,

C. Stanley Blair,

Secretary of State

Mr. James P. Mause, Chief Clerk of the regular session of January, 1968, called the House to order.

The reading clerk called the roll of the House, the following members answered to their names.

Delegates—

Briscoe, Fowler, Boyer, Athey, Lipin, Thomason, Burkhead, Connell, Helms, Allen, Anderson, Fornos, Benner, Compton, Nimmerrichter, Arata, Coolahan, Malone, Alpert, Jacobson, Rynd, Hopkins, Nice, Price, Hinkel, Jensen, Jones, Kardash, Schirano, Einschutz, Evans, Rush, Arnick, D'Anna, Minnick, Lowe, Dize, Matthews (R. M.), Burkheimer, Mackie, Dorman, Menes, Mothershead, Banning, Goodman, Hull, King, Montfort, Santangelo, Weile, Aragona, Bagley, Donovan, Giordano, McDonough, Rummage, Hickman (C. M.), Hickman (R.), Houck, Remsberg, Virts, Greer, Hess,