OF DUPLICATE PROCEEDINGS -OF THE- Senate of Maryland. = Special Session, 1901. BY AUTHORITY. ANNAPOLIS : WM. J. C. DULANY Co., State Printers. 1901. Dup. 13 LIBRARIES 266892 MARCH 1930 SENATE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, March 6th 1901. STATE OF MARYLAND, TO WIT: Wednesday the sixth day of March, in the year nineteen hundred and one, being the day appointed by the Proclamation of the Governor of Maryland for the meeting of the General Assembly of Maryland in Extraordinary Session. Mr. Alfred Ritter, Secretary of the Senate, proceeded to call the Senate to order. Prayer by Rev. W. W. Van Arsdale. The Secretary then read the following proclamation by the Governor : STATE OF MARYLAND, Executive Department. WHEREAS, In view of errors believed to exist in the enumeration in the recent United States Census of the population of this State, which errors, if not corrected by an enumeration made under State authority, will give to some sections of the State a disproportionate representation in the House of Delegates; AND WHEREAS, In view of the urgent necessity of immediate legislation reforming manifest and great abuses in the Election Law of this State, and also of legislation conferring additional power upon the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the immediate exercise of which is imperatively demanded by a due regard to the preservation of the sanitary condition of the city of Baltimore," an extraordinary occasion exists for a Special Session of the General Assembly. Now, therefore, I, John Walter Smith, Governor of Maryland, by virtue of the authority conferred, and duly imposed upon me by the Constitution, do hereby call a Special Session of the General Assembly, to consider and act upon such measures; said session to begin at noon, |