96 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 23

of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, of
1902. entitled 'An Act to authorize the County Com-
missioners of Somerset county to pay the costs in-
Ctirred by Joseph Muir in his contest with L. Wesley
Beauchamp, before the Circuit Court of Somerset
county, and the Court of Appeals of Maryland.' "

On motion of Mr. Bouchet,

Leave was granted to the Committee on the Judic-
iary to'inrroduce a bill entitled "An Act to repeal and
re-enact with amendments section 2, Article 35, Code
of Public General Laws, as repealed and re-enacted by
Act 1902, chapter 495, title 'Evidence,' sub-title 'Com-
petency of Witnesses.' "

JOINT CONVENTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEM-
BLY OF MARYLAND.

ELECTION OF A SENATOR IN CONGRESS.

The hour of 12 o'clock, meridian, having arrived,
The Senators of Maryland, escorted by Messrs. Col-
lins and Feaga, the committee appointed by the House
of Delegates for that purpose, appeared in the Hall of
the House of Delegates for the purpose of convening
with the members of the House of Delegates in Joint
Assembly, for the election of a Senator from this State.
for a term of six years, from March 4th, 1905, in suc-
cession of the Hon. Louis E. McComas, whose term
will then expire.

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

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