6                            JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS                  [Dec. 16

PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND

Convening the General Assembly of Maryland in

Extraordinary Session at Annapolis, Maryland

Tuesday, December 16, 1969, 11:00 a.m.

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, Marvin Mandel, 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 11 o'clock on Tuesday, December 16, 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 November, In the Year of Our
Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-Nine.

MARVIN MANDEL,
By the Governor.
BLAIR LEE, III,

Secretary of State.
Which was read.

ANNOUNCEMENT
Secretary of the Senate

The Secretary of the Senate is Oden Bowie, pursuant to the provisions
of Section 75F of the Rules of the Senate of Maryland.

Which was read.

ORDERS
By Senator H. R. Hughes:

Resolved, That the following shall be desk officers for the Special
Session of December 16, 1969:

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

Journal Clerk—Mr. W. Gary Gray

Reading Clerk—Mr. James E. Jones

Sergeant-at-Arms—Mr. Tilghman Rhodes

Chief Page—Mrs. C. Reba Harvey

Postmistress—Anna Sakers

Read and adopted by yeas and nays as follows:

Affirmative

Senators—

Mr. President, Anderson, Azrael, Bailey, Bertier, Bertorelli, Bishop, Brubaker,
Byron, Clark, Connolly, Cook, Conroy, Crawford, Curran, Dean, Emanuel, Finney,
Friedler, Gore, Hall, Hart, Hodges, Hoyer, Hughes, H., Lapides, Malkus, Mitchell,
McCourt, McGuirk, Nock, Pine, Schweinhaut, Smelser, Snyder, Staszak, Staten, Steffey,
Steinberg, Stone, Welcome, Wineland.                                                            Total—42

Negative—None