202 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 4

THURSDAY, February 4th, 1904.

The House met at 11 a.m., and was opened with
prayer by the Rev. James Earle Maloy.

Present at the call of the roll, the following mem-
bers :

Messrs. Speaker, Buckler, Wilkinson, Atkinson,
Gibbs, Atwell, Downs, Duvall, Lowman, Bond, Sim-
mons, Smoot, Walbach, Benson, Cockey, Fitzsimmons,
Green, Stevenson, Collins, Dodson, Jackson, Mil-
bourne, Miles, Riggan, Hopkins, Wingate, Murphy, of
Dorchester, Keys, Kirk, Fryer, Hill, Ray, Tighe, Wells,
Butler, Wilson, Carey, Dennis, Kirbin, Crawford,
Harrison, Harry, Hiteshew, Smith, Andrew, Carroll,
Hitchcock, McComas, Goslin, Willey, Becker, Bosse,
Evans, Norris, Reed. Hall, Morrison, Murphy, of Bal-
timore city, Orem, Roth, Trager, Bouchet, Dawkins,
Durham, Grant, Linthicum, Moore, Bald, Godwin,
Henkel, Lock, Miller, Pairo, Baker, Bingham, Charles,
Mitchell, Tennant, Amiss, Johnston, Lansdale, Wil-
liams, Drumm, Feaga, Loar, Stump, Jenkins, Fuss,
Hainess, Kain, Oursler, Gill, Pearre, Bennett, Hearn,
Messick, Harvey, Howard.—97.

The Journal of the 3rd. was read and approved.

The Speaker laid before the House the following:
STATE OF MARYLAND,

TREASURER'S OFFICE,

Annapolis, February 4, 1904.

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee: I
thank you very heartily for the kind words with
which you formally make known to me my election
for the third time to the responsible office of State
Treasurer, and I accept with grateful sensibility this
renewed evidence of the confidence and esteem of the
General Assembly.