6 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Dec. 27

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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

ANNAPOLIS, MD., December 27, 1946.

Hon. James J. Lindsay,
President of the Senate,
State House,
Annapolis, Maryland.

Dear Mr. President:

I am pleased to advise that I have appointed Joseph E. Joy of
Olivet, Calvert County, Maryland, as State Senator for that County,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Hon. J. Frank Parran.

Mr. Joy's commission was issued under date of September 26,
1946.

Respectfully submitted,

HERBERT R. O'CONOR, Governor.

Which was read and adopted by yeas and nays as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. —
President	Carter	George		Sothoron
Altfeld	Cronin	Gonder	Marvel	Warfield
Bauer	Davis	Hampton	Myers	Waller
Bennett	Della	Hughes	Newsome	Wilmer
Byrnes	Dulin	Johnson	Shipley
Campbell	Funk

Total—25

NEGATIVE—NONE.
Senator Joy took the oath of office.