10                JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 5,

Mr. Briscoe offered the following order which was adopted:

Ordered by the House of Delegates, That the Chief Clerk
be directed to have the printing of the House of Delegates,
executed under his superintendence, until the House shall
have finally acted upon the subject of printing, at prices not
exceeding the prices paid for the printing of the last session.

Mr. Miller offered the following order which was adopted:

Ordered, That a committee of five be appointed, to report
rules for the regulation of this House, and that the rules of
the last House of Delegates, be and they are hereby adopted,
until the committee have reported.

Mr. Seth offered the following order, which was adopted:

Ordered, That the Speaker be authorized to pay such of
the officers of the last House of Delegates, as have been in
attendance on the present House.

Mr. Morgan presented the petition of Adam Denmead, and
others, which was referred to the Committee on elections,
hereafter to be appointed, to wit:

To the House of Delegates of the State of Maryland :

The undersigned, Adam Denmead, E. Wyatt Blanchard,
Francis B. Loney, Hugh A. Cooper, Isaac S. George, John
J. Graves, Henry Stockbridge, John F. Meredith, William
Colton and William F. Burns, respectfully represent, that
at the election for members, to represent Baltimore City, in
your honorable body for the ensuing two years, held in said
city on the 2nd day of November, 1859, Charles L. Krafft,
Thomas Booze, Robert L. Seth, William A. Wisong, George
R. Berry, F. C. Crowley, R. A. McAllister, Thomas M.
Smith, Robert Turner and Marcus Denison, were returned
as elected and have received certificates of election from the
Governor of the State of Maryland, and now hold seats in
your honorable body by virtue thereof.

Your memorialists represent, that the returns of said elec-
tion were not correct, and that a very great number of the
votes received by the Judges of election were illegal and fraud-
ulent,—that in all the wards of said city, except the Eighth
and the Twelfth wards, the polling places were, in the presence
and with the consent of the police, taken forcible possession
of by organized bauds of armed ruffians, who, by force and
threats, drove away and intimidated electors who intended to
vote for us, and thus prevented them from depositing their
ballots. Your memorialists claim, that the vote received in