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amended, section 32 of Article 27, of the Code of Public
General Laws, title 'Crimes and Punishments, ' sub-title
'Counterfeiting and Forgery. ' "
Which was adopted.

Mr. Mitchell submitted the following message:
BY THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES,

January 18, 1900.
Gentlemen of the Senate:

We have received your message, proposing that when
the General Assembly adjourns to-day, it stands ad-
journed until 8 P. M., Monday night next, and we concur
therein.

By order,

B. L. SMITH.

Chief Clerk.

Which was read, assented to, and sent to the Senate.

Mr. King, from the Committee on Elections, submitted
the following

REPORT:
To the House of Delegates of Maryland,

Session of 1900:

GENTLEMEN: —Your Committee on Elections beg leave
to report, that in the matter of the contest of John R.
Pattison against Joseph B. Andrews, the sitting member
from Dorchester county, the contestant, as part of his case,
requests the ballots cast for members of the House of
Delegates, at the election held in Dorchester county on
the seventh day of November last, be recounted by your
committee, and in order to avoid delays in the determi-
nation of this contest, which might be occasioned by the
copying or recounting of said ballots under the direction
of the Judge of the Circuit Court for Dorchester county
in certain cases of contested elections, which your com-
mittee is informed are pending in said Court, and to
otherwise expedite the determination of the case before
your committee, your committee has determined to com-