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Burgess,	Wyville,	Kennard,
Stonestreet,	Larrimore,	Lynch, of B. city,
Walker,	Harding,	Harrington,
Allender,	Bowlus,	Crowley,
Lynch, of Balt. co.	Koons,	Alexander,
Smith, of Balt. co.	Hobbs,	Duvall,
Goldsborough,	Hanway,	Thrust on,
Waller,	Bacon,	McKinstry,
Richardson,	Baker,	Day—39.

The following Message from the Executive was received at
the hands of Richard D. Sellman, Esq., Private Secretary to
the Governor:

STATE OF MARYLAND, }

Executive Department; }
Annapolis, February 10th, 1858. }

To the House of Delegates of Maryland.
Gentlemen:

In compliance with your request of the 29th January, to
furnish your House with a list of the persons now constitut-
ing the Board of Visitors of the Maryland Hospital, showing
the residences of said visitors, date and manner of their ap-
pointment, and what vacancies exist in said board, I here-
with enclose a communication received from the President
and Secretary of the said Maryland Hospital, by which it will
be perceived who are the persons constituting the present
board, and the dates of their respective appointments and
elections—that eleven of said visitors, as required by the
charter, reside in the city of Baltimore, and four of them re-
side in the counties, for which they are named. And that
vacancies exist in the board, as to the visitors for the other
counties, which the board propose to fill as soon as can prop-
erly be done, in the way and mode which they think they are
justified in doing, under the provisions of their charter. As it
seems proper that this communication enclosed should remain
on record in the Executive Department, I have to request
that as soon as your House shall have made a copy of it, you
will order that it be returned to this Department.

Thos. H. Hicks.
Baltimore, February 6th, 1858.
To his Excellency,

Hon. T. Holiday Hicks,

Governor of Maryland.
Sir:—

The Board of Visitors of the Maryland Hospital, at a meet-
ing held on the 3d inst., have instructed us, as their Presi-