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ANNAPOLIS, Tuesday, January 25, 1916.

The Senate met at 12 o'clock noon.
Prayer by Rev. H. P. Baker,, «

Present at roll call the following Senators:

Messrs. —

President Chesley Holmead Mudd Warfield

Allen Collier Johnson Norris Williams

Archer Cooper Jones Ogden Zihlman

Bennett Duvall Joy Parsons

Bomberger Frick Kaufman Shepherd

Brown Harrison Legg Speicher —27

The Journal of Monday, January 24, 1916, was read and
approved.

Mr. Cooper submitted the following message:

BY THE SENATE,

January 25, 1916,
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates:

We propose, with the concurrence of your Honorable Body,
to proceed with the election of Treasurer of the State of
Maryland on Tuesday, January 25, 1916, at 2. 15 o'clock P. M.

We have named on the part of the Senate, Hon. Murray Van-
diver, Henry A. Osborne, Jr., and Robert F. Duer, as candidates,
and have appointed as tellers on the part of the Senate of
Maryland, Messrs. Cooper and Zihlman, who, in connection with
the tellers appointed by your Honorable Body, are to receive
the votes of the House of Delegates and count the same. We
propose that the election of the Treasurer of Maryland shall
be by joint ballot, in accordance with Article 6, Section 1, of
the Constitution of the State of Maryland, and that the pro-
cedure be as follows:

Each member in his respective Chamber, as his name is
called by the Reading Clerk thereof, will advance and hand
his ballot to one of the tellers, who shall exhibit it to the
other, who shall announce the same and the Clerk will make
a record thereof. After the ballots shall have been cast, they
shall be counted by the tellers and the result compared with
the result ascertained by the Clerk. The tellers appointed
by the Senate and by the House of Delegates, respectively,
after the ballot-vote has been cast, shall meet together, can-
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