6                       JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS                          [Jan. 6

Pursuant to the powers vested in me, as Governor, by Article II, Section 16, and Article III, Section 14, of the Constitution of Maryland, I, Spiro T. Agnew, Governor of the State of Maryland, do hereby proclaim and convene a Special and Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly of Maryland to commence at 12 o'clock noon on January 6, 1969, in the State Capitol in the City of Annapolis.

GIVEN Under My Hand and The Great Seal of the State of Maryland, in the City of Annapolis, this 2nd Day of January, In the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-Nine.

Spiro T. Agnew, By the Governor: C. Stanley Blair.

Secretary of State. Which was read.

ANNOUNCEMENT Secretary and Journal Clerk of the Senate

The Secretary of the Senate is J. Waters Parrish, pursuant to the provisions of Section 75F of the Rules of the Senate of Maryland.

The Journal Clerk of the Senate is Oden Bowie, pursuant to the provisions of Section 77A of the Rules of the Senate of Maryland.

Which was read.

ORDERS By Senator Harry R. Hughes:

Resolved, That the following shall be desk officers for the Special Session of January 6, 1969:

Assistant Secretary of the Senate—Mr. Milton L. Dennis

Assistant Journal Clerk—Mr. W. Gary Gray

Reading Clerk—Mr. Donald Hurwitz

Sergeant-at-Arms—Mr. Tilghman A. Rhodes

Chief Page—Mrs. C. Reba Horney

Postmaster—Mr. Charles Katsereles

Read and adopted by yeas and nays as follows:

Senators—

Mr. President, Anderson, Azrael, Bailey, Bertier, Bertorelli, Bishop, Brubaker, Byron, Clark, Connolly, Cook, Conroy, Curran, Dean, Emanuel, Finney, Friedler, Gore, Hall, Hart, Hodges, Hoyer, Hughes (H.), Lapides, Lee, Malkus, Mitchell, McGuirk, Nock, Pine, Smelser, Snyder, Staszak, Staten, Steffey, Steinberg, Stone, Welcome and Wineland.                                                                                              Total—40