1472 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Apl. 6,

MONDAY, April 6, 1874.

The House met and was opened with prayer by the Rev.
Mr. Hedges

Present at the call of the roll, the following members :

Messrs. Hines, (Speaker,) Bond, Colton, Robinson, Bird,
Turner, of Calvt., Lancaster, Hawkins, Buchanan, Matthews,
Merryman, Turner, of Balto. co., Banks, Seth, Valliant,
Sudler, Coulbourn, Duer, Gordy, Hodson, Turner, of Cecil,
Mackey, Davis, Etchison, Latchford, Kemp, Pruitt, Merrill,
Koons, Miller, Lamar, Nicodenms, Annan, Lee, Riley, Daw-
son, Williams, McCosker, T. H. Hamilton, Cooper, C. R.
Hamilton, Foster, Staylor, Stewart, of Balt, city, McAleese,
Gill, Hart, Greenfield, McColgan, Harig, Joyce, Groh, Fen-
ton, Berry, Freaner, Stake, Clark, Watkins, Fletchall, Wier,
Wack, Park, Brace,Waters,Vanderford, Galt, Brown, Maclin,
Stewart, of Howd., Leonard, Bedsworth, West, Glotfelty—73.

Mr. Colton, Chairman-of the Committee on Elections, sub-
mitted the following

REPORT.
To the Honorable,

The General Assembly of Maryland ;

The Committee on Elections beg leave to make the following
Teport, viz., that after an examination of the credentials we
find that the following gentlemen were duly elected as Mem-
bers of the House of Delegates :

St. Mary's County—Thomas H. Bond, R. Johnson Coltou.

Kent County—Samuel A. Merritt, Jesse K Hines.

Anne Arundel County—Eli J. Henkle, James S. Robinson,
George W. Nutwell.

Calvert County—Samuel R. Bird, John Turner.
Charles County—F. M. Lancaster, D. W. Hawkins.

Baltimore County—Wm. S. Keech, Charles A. Buchanan,
D. Marsh Matthews, Robert Fowler, John Merryman, Lewis
Turner, Jr.

Talbot County—Joseph B. Seth, William H. Valliant.

Somerset County—John S. Sudler, William Coulbourn,
E. F. Duer.

Dorchester County—J. J. M. Gordy, Oliver P. Johnson,
Eugene Hodson.

Cecil County—James B. Groorne, James Turner, James A.
Mackey.

Prince George's County - Latimer A. Etchison, William
Latchford, A. Van Robey.

Queen Anne's County—Thomas H. Kemp, J. West Thomp-
son, Jr.