Mr. Maddox submitted the following order :

Ordered, That the Secretary of the Senate furnish each
member of the Senate with ten extra daily copies of the
Journal.

Which was read, and, under the ruling of the President,
referred to the Committee on Printing, as provided for by
order passed the 7th instant.

On motion by Mr. Stephenson, it was

Ordered, That the proceedings in all joint conventions of
the two Houses shall be entered on the Journal of the Senate
at large by the Secretary.

On motion by Mr. Hyland,

Leave was granted to the Senators from Somerset, Wicomico
and Worcester counties to report a bill authorizing the Com-
missioners of Somerset county to change the place of holding
the polls in District No. 2 of said county.

Mr. Stephenson submitted the following message:

BY THE SENATE,

January 13,1870.

Gentlemen of the House of Delegates:

We propose to your Honorable Body that the Committee
on Printing of each House be made a Joint Committee on
Printing of both Houses, with power to contract for the print-
ing of the Journals of Proceedings of the Senate and House
of Delegates, all bills, reports, documents and other matter
ordered to be printed by either House; also, the laws and
joint resolutions passed at the present session of the Legisla-
ture. That said Committee invite proposals by public adver-
tisement, for a reasonable time, for said printing, before con-
tracting or agreeing for the same That said contract or
agreement to be given to the lowest and best bidder. That
said Committee may, if more economical and advantageous to
the public interest, contract or agree for the printing of the
laws separately from the other printing, and may contract
with different persons for the different kinds of printing.
That said Committee report the names and bids of ail parties
proposing for the whole or any of said printing. No contract
or agreement for the whole or any part of said printing to
take effect, and no printing to be done, under or by authority
of the same, until both Houses shall have approved of such
contract or agreement.
By order,

AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
Secretary.