38 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 14

Mr. Collins submitted the following message:
BY THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES,

January 14th, 1904.
Gentlemen of the Senate:

We have received your message proposing that
when the General Assembly adjourns to-day, it stands
adjourned to Monday, January 18th, at 7.30 p. m...
and concur therein.

By order,

B. L. SMITH,

Chief Clerk.
Which was read, assented to and sent to the Senate.

The Speaker read before the House the following
communication:

STATE OF MARYLAND,

COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.

ANNAPOLIS, MD., January 12th, 1904.
Hon. Geo. Y. Everhart,

Speaker of the House of Delegates of Maryland.
Dear Sir:

I have the honor to present through you to the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland my fourth annual report,
in pursuance of Section 9 of Article 19 of the Code of
Public General Laws, giving in detail a "statement of
the funds and the revenues of the State and of the
public expenditures," for the fiscal year ended, Sep-
tember 30, 1903.

Very respectfully,
J. W. BERING,

Comptroller.

[SEE DOCUMENT A.]

RESOLUTIONS.

Mr. Hall offered the following resolutions :
Whereas, It has come to the knowledge of the House
of Delegates of Maryland, that John E. Hurst, one of