40               JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS.           [Jan. 12,

The hour of one o'clock having arrived, Messrs. Harrington
and Thruston, were appointed a committee to wait upon the
Senate, and inform them that the House of Delegates was pre-
pared to receive them, in order to proceed to open the returns of
the vole for Governor, as required by Section 3rd, Article 2nd of
the Constitution

The Honorable, the Senate having appeared in the Hall of the
House of Delegates, the returns from the several counties and
the city of Baltimore, were opened and counted, when it appear-
ed that the Hon. Thomas Holliday Hicks had received
votes for Governor, and that the Hon. John C. Groome, had re-
ceived               votes as follows:

		T. H. Hicks.	J. C. Groome.
St. Mary's	Co.	294	1088
Kent	"	794	709
Anne Arundel	"	1000	1053
Calvert	"	419	401
Charles	"	426	764
Baltimore	"	3062	3106
Talbot	"	727	914
Somerset	"	1481	1307
Dorchester	"	1303	949
Cecil	"	1865	1955
Prince George's "	705	1040
Queen Anne's	"	839	855
Worcester	"	1281	1421
Frederick	"	3634	3451
Harford	"	1945	1537
Caroline	"	757	711
Washington	"	2735	2708
Baltimore city		17,850	8211
Montgomery	"	1128	1224
Allegany	"	1774	2299
Carroll	"	2315	2249
Howard	"	807	729
		47,141	38,671
		38,681	38,681
Hicks maj.,		8460

Whereupon the the Honorable, the Speaker, declared the Hon.
Thomas H. Hicks, duly elected Governor of Maryland.

Hon. Thomas Holliday Hicks, having received a majority of
the votes cast, was therefore declared duly elected Governor of
Maryland.

The following message was sent to the Senate: