4 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Nov. 5
Being:

STATE OF MAEYLAND

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

PROCLAMATION OF THE GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND CON-
VENING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND IN
EXTRAORDINARY SESSION AT ANNAPOLIS, MARY-
LAND, MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF NOVEM-
BER, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-
FIVE AT 11 O'CLOCK A. M.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to me by the Mayor and Board
of Estimates of Baltimore City that a grave situation exists in
Baltimore City with respect to the urgent need for additional
finances to meet budget requirements; and

WHEREAS, to meet the needs as pointed out by the said officials,
authority is required from the General Assembly, to permit the
levying of additional taxation by the City of Baltimore; and

WHEREAS, for the aforegoing reasons, an emergency exists which
requires a special or extraordinary session of the General Assembly
of Maryland, and justifies and makes it the duty of the Governor
of Maryland to convene forthwith the General Assembly in special
or extraordinary session;

Now, therefore, I, HERBERT R. O'CONOR, Governor of Maryland,
by virtue of the authority conferred and duly imposed upon me by
the Constitution of Maryland, do hereby call a special or extra-
ordinary session of the General Assembly of Maryland to consider
and act upon the measures aforesaid; said special or extraordinary
session to begin at 11 A. M., Monday, November fifth, in the year
of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-five, at the
State Capitol, in the City of Annapolis, State of Maryland.

GIVEN under my hand and the Great Seal of the State of Mary-
land, at the City of Annapolis, this 29th day of October in the year
of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-five.

' HERBERT R. O'CONOR, Governor of Maryland.
(The Great Seal of Maryland.)

WILLIAM J. McWILLIAMS,

Secretary of the State of Maryland.

Which was read.