1892. ] OF THE SENATE 645

Submitted the following

REPORT:
To the Honorable, the Senate of Maryland;

The majority of the Committee on Elections of the
Senate would respectfully submit this, its supple-
mental report, in the matter of the contested election
case of Samuel F. Bird vs. Joseph F. Talbott, which
by the order of the Senate was re-committed to said
committee:

The committee, by reason of the sad event which
has occurred since the committee filed its original re-
port in this cause, by which event the contestee, the
late Joseph F. Talbott, his been removed by death,
would respectfully submit and recommend the pass-
age by the Senate in lieu of the resolutions submitted
and recommended in the said original report, the fol-
lowing resolutions:

1. Resolved, That the late Joseph F. Talbott, on
the 3rd of November, 1893, was elected Senator from
Calvert county for the term of four years.

2. Resolved,, That the petition and, memorial of
Samuel F, Bird, asking to have awarded to him the
seat in the Senate, heretofore filled by the late Joseph
F. Talbott, as the sitting member, be disallowed, and
his petition dismissed.

3. Resolved, That the death of the late Joseph F.
Talbott has created a vacancy in the Senate, from Cal-
vert county, for which the said Joseph F. Talbott was
elected.

Respectfully submitted,

JNO. WALTER SMITH,

Chairman.

THOMAS G. HAYES,
JAMES P. GORTER,
DAVID SEIBERT.

Which was read, and ordered to lie over.

Mr. Hayes, from the Committee on Finance, re-
ported favorably,

House bill entitled an Act to refund to William H.
Lyon, Collector of Taxes in the Seventh Election Dis-
trict of St. Mary's county, a sum of money erroneously
paid by him into the Treasury of the State.

Which was read the second time.