1900. ] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 119

To the House of Delegates:

The Committee on Elections to whom was referred the
memorial of John R. Pattison, contesting the election of
Joseph B. Andrews, who was returned elected to to this
House from Dorchester county, desire to report:

That, by virtue of an order passed by this House at
its session of January 18th, inst, the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Dorchester county, produced before your com-
mittee all the original ballots cast in Dorchester county
on the seventh day of November, 1899, which ballots
were carefully recounted by your committee.

That your committee have considered the arguments
of counsel for contestant and contestee and given due
weight to all objections as to disputed ballots.

That in the opinion of your committee an actual re-
count of all the legal ballots cast in Dorchester county
at said election discloses that John R. Patterson received
three thousand one hundred and thirty-seven (3, 137)
votes, and that Joseph B. Andrews received three thous-
and and fifty seven (3, 057) votes, and your committee
therefore report that at an election held in Dorchester
county, Maryland, on the seventh day of November, A.
D., 1899, John R. Patterson was duly elected as a mem-
ber of this House, and is entitled to his seat, and that
Joseph B. Andrews, the sitting member was not elected.

All of which your committee respectfully submit.

ADONIRAM J. ROBINSON,
HENRY J. ANDERSON, of Wor.,
GEO. W. TRUITT,
FRANK J. GATELY,
MICHAEL E. WALSH,
FRANCIS V. KING, Chairman,
HUMPHREY D. WOLFE,
ISAAC S. BENNETT.

While there was some difference of opinion among us,
as to whether or not certain ballots should or should not
have been counted, yet I am under the impression and