90 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 21,

REPORT.

The Committee appointed by the Senate and House of Del-
egates, to count the votes cast for Treasurer of Maryland,
beg leave to report that—

The votes cast by the Senate were in number................ 25

The votes cast by the House of Delegates were in number. 82

Making in all..........................................107

Of which number Barnes Corapton received 80 votes, and
Henry H. Goldsborough 23 votes.
And there was one blank ballot.

We therefore respectfully report that Barnes Conipton,
liaving received the largest number of votes, is returned by
the Committee as elected to the office of Treasurer of Mary-
land.

WILL. H. TUCK,

JOHN R. BLAKE,

On the Part of the Senate.

O. H. P. CLARK,
JOHN WIER,
On the Part of the House.

Whereupon the Speaker declared that Hon. Barnes Comp-
ton, having received a majority of all the votes cast, was
duly elected Treasurer of the State of Maryland, for the term
prescribed by the Constitution.

The Secretary of the Senate delivered the following mes-
sage:

By THE SENATE,

January 20th, 1814
Gentlemen of the, House of Delegates:

We have had under careful consideration your Joint Resolu-
tion in regard to procuring an address to be delivered in the
Hall of the House of Delegates on the 17th March, on the
life and public services of the late Chief Justice Taney, and
respectfully decline to concur therein. We invite your favor-
able consideration of the Joint Resolution of the Senate, intro-
duced simultaneously with your own, as being more in con-
sonance with the facts of the case; the Committee appointed
to procure a statue of the late Chief Justice Taney, having
executed the duty confided to them, when they submitted
their request on the 10th day of December, 1872, and deliv-
ered the statue into the possession and keeping of the State