Culley, Samuel M. Haller, Daniel C. Bruce and Charles Gil-
pin, were not duly elected to seats in your Honorable Body;
but that your memorialists William Devecmon, William A.
Bryden, John McElfish and Patrick Hamill, were duly elect-
ed to said seats, at the election aforesaid, and are entitled to
the same.

WILLIAM DEVECMON,
Cumberland, Allegany county, Md.
January 1st, 1867.
P. HAMILL,

Swanton, Md.

January 1st, 1866.
WM. A. BRYDEN,
Bloomington, Allegany county, Md.
January 1st, 1867.
JOHN McELFISH,

Flintstone, Allegany county, Md.
January 1st, 1867.

Copy of notice referred to in the annexed memorial of Wil-
liam Devecmon, William A. Bryden, John McElfish and
Patrick Hamill, to the House of Delegates of Maryland, Jan-
uary Session 1867.

To William B. McCulley, Samuel M. Haller, Daniel 0. Bruce
and Charles Gilpin,

Gentlemen: Notice is hereby given that it is the intention of
the undersigned to contest your election for the House of Dele-
gates, for the State of Maryland.

We shall proceed to take testimony at such time and place
as shall hereafter be designated and agreed upon by John B.
Widenner, a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland, in
and for Allegany county.

Dated the 15th day of November, 1866.

WILLIAM DEVECMON,
PATRICK HAMILL,
WILLIAM A. BRYDEN,
JOHN McELFISH.