SENATE JOURNAL

SPECIAL SESSION

Annapolis, Md., March 8, 1956.
State of Maryland, to wit:

Thursday, the eighth day of March, in the year nineteen hundred and
fifty-six, at 10:00 o'clock A. M. being the day appointed by the Proclama-
tion of the Governor of Maryland for the meeting of the General Assembly
of Maryland in Special Session, the Senate was called to order by the
Secretary of the Senate.

The following Senators answered to their names:

Messrs.—

Bertorelli, Cole, Dean, Della, Dempsey, DiDomenico, Downey, Flanagan, Friend,
Goodman, James, Jewell, Malkus, Mason, Mattingly, Monroe, Mrs. Nock, North,
Northrop, Phipps, Phoebus, Ramsburg, Redden, See, Shipley, Turnbull, Weinroth,
Goldstein, Wheatley.                                                                                     Total—29

Twenty-nine Senators having answered to their names and a quorum
being present the Senate of Maryland (Special Session of March 8, 1956)
is now ready for the transaction of business.

Prayer was offered by Rabbi Morris D. Rosenblatt.

The Hon. Louis L. Goldstein was unanimously nominated and elected
as President of the Senate.

The Hon. Louis L. Goldstein, being elected President, was escorted to
the chair.

MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE

The Secretary of State appeared and delivered a message from the
Executive.

GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION

Convening the General Assembly of Maryland in Extraordinary Session

at Annapolis, Maryland

Thursday, March 8, 1956—10:00 A. M.

Whereas, at the recent 1956 session of the General Assembly among
important measures enacted were two dealing with a State Port Authority
and the Northeastern Expressway, both of which measures are urgently
needed, but possible doubt has been raised as to the validity of said
measures because of the provisions of Sectipn 15 of Article 3 of the Consti-
tution, limiting the type of legislation which may be enacted in a thirty
day session of the General Assembly; and

Whereas, it has been represented to me that there are various
pressing financial problems in connection with urgently needed projects in