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REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTEES.

Mr. Lansdale, from a Select Committee reported
favorably,

Hoirse bill entitled "An Act to repeal and re-enact
with amendments chapter 93, entitled 'An Act to add to
the power of the Mayor and Council of Takoma Paik.' "

JOINT CONVENTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEM-
BLY OF MARYLAND.

ELECTION OF A SENATOR IN CONGRESS.

Pursuant to adjournment,

The hour of 12 o'clock, meridian, having arrived,
The Senators of Maryland, escorted by the House
Committee, Messrs. Collins and Feaga, appeared at the
Hall of the House of Delegates, for the purpose of
convening in Joint Assembly with that body for the
election a United States Senator in the Congress of the
United States for six years, in succession of the Hon.
Louis E. McComas, whose term of office will expire
March 4th, A. D., 1905.

The Speaker of the House of Delegates assumed the
Chair as Chairman of the Joint Assembly.

The roll of the Senators was then called by the Sec-
retary of the Senate, and it appeared that 26 members
answered to their names.

The Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates then pro-
ceeded to call the roll of the House of Delegates, and
100 Members answered to their names.

The Secretary of the Senate then read the Journal
of proceedings of the Senate of the preceding day, in
relation to the election of a Senator in Congress from
this State, for the term ending on the 4th day of
March, 1911.

After which.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates read the Jour-
nal of the proceedings of the House of Delegates on
the preceding day, in relation to a Senator in Congress