1946] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 5

GIVEN under my hand and the Great Seal of the State of Mary-
land, at the City of Annapolis, this 19th day of December, in the
year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-Six.
HERBERT R. O'CONOR, Governor of Maryland.

(The Great Seal of Maryland.)

EDWARD G. CHANEY,

Secretary of State of Maryland.

Which was read.

ORDER.

By the Washington County Delegation:

Please excuse Mr. Ankeney on account of illness.

By Mr. Adler:
Please excuse S. Pete Pollack on account of illness.

On motion of Mr. Tolle, of Baltimore County, seconded by Mr.
Dick, of Allegany County, Mr. Charles Carroll, of Howard County,
was placed in nomination for Speaker pro tem.

There being no further nominations for the office (of Speaker pro
tem; Mr. Charles Carroll, of Howard County, was elected Speaker
pro tem by yeas and nays as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.—

Speaker Todd Zimmerman Adler

Cecil Ward Burkins Melnicove Griffith

Johnson, J. C. Brinsfield Clark Walker

Harris Hurlock De Ran Robinson Wells

Jester Spicer Rubenstein Robinson, L. H.

Murray Webb Merriken Sklar Boucher

Bryson Neal Argabright Dick

Mackie Booth Bandiere Morgan

Stromeyer Tosh Kosakowski Boone Reed, L. B.

Tyler Harvey Milanicz Luber See

Joffe Norris Knox Sleeman

Hall Pumphrey Siemek Reed, J. H. Barnes

Lusby Steward Weber Baynes Benson

Gain Griffin Dodrer

Monroe Wilkinson, P. O'Dunne Grube Hann

Bustard Evans, J. W. Di Domenico Lehnert Bauman

Coleman Thomas Schimunek Frederick Carroll

Gathmann Dennis Ritter Rastenis Burroughs

Lupo Shockley Weintraub Kolb

Rockenbaugh Walters Buffington Bloom Messick

Tolle Frushour Dempsey Holzapfel Smith

Fairbank Grove Kearns Newcomer Brenneman

Larrimore Offutt McNulty Tenney Green

Shane Ramsburg O'Malley Ziegler Myers

Efvans, N. Utterback West Carlock

Total—115
NEGATIVE—NONE.