1018 JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

NO. 5

Joint Resolution extending the term of Honorable A. Hunter
Boyd as Chief Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit of
Maryland.

WHEREAS, The Honorable A. Hunter Boyd, who is now
Chief Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Maryland, will
attain the age of seventy years on the 15th day of July, 1919 ;
and

WHEREAS, The term for which he was elected does not expire
until November. 1924; and

WHEREAS, There is a widespread desire on the part of the
people of said Judicial District that his term shall be extended
to the end ef the term for which he was elected; therefore,

Be it Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the term of the said Honorable A. Hunter Boyd, as Chief
Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Maryland, be and
the same is hereby extended for the full term for which he was
elected, which will end in November, 1924.

Approved March 19th, 1918.

NO. 6.

JOINT RESOLUTION of the Senate and House of Dele-
gates of Maryland in memory of General Thomas J. Shry-
ock, President of the Board of Managers of the State House
of Reformation for Colored Boys at Cheltenham, Prince
George's County, Md., who died on the third day of Feb-
ruary, 1918, and was buried from the Grand Lodge Room
at the Masonic Temple, on North Charles street, Baltimore
City, on Wednesday, February 6th, 1918.

WHEREAS in the midst of an extraordinarily useful and
active life, both as a citizen and public official, seemingly in
the best of health, and with the promise of many years of
future service to his State, an all-wise Providence removed
from this life General Thomas J. Shryock, President of the
Board of Managers of the State "House of Reformation for
Colored Boys" at Cheltenham, Prince George's County, Mary-
land. General Shryock, in his life as a merchant, stood in the
front rank of those who helped to build up the great commer-