96 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 19,

the ballots of the Senate being properly sealed, was then
placed iu the hands of the Secretary of the Senate for safe-
keeping.

In the House of Delegates the votes of members having been
deposited in the ballot box of said House, in consequence of
the Senate having adjourned, the box containing the ballots,
was duly sealed by the Speaker and placed in the keeping of
the tellers of the House,

That on the 19th day of January, in compliance with the
concurrent messages of the two Houses of the General Assem-
bly, the Joint Committee retired to a private apartment, with
the boxes of the respective Houses containing said ballots,
and upon counting the same, find that John Merryman has
received 62 votes; Robert Fowler has received 33 votes; Joshua
Vansaut 13 votes, and William F, Paunell received 3 votes.

Your Committee therefore respectfully report, that Mr, John
Merryman having received a majority of the whole number
of votes cast, is returned by the Committee, in conformity
with the established usage, as elected to the office of Trea-
surer of Maryland,

HENRY SNYDER,
JAS. C. CLARKE,
A. J. GORMAN,
J. M. STREETT,
DANIEL W. CAMERON.

Which was read.

Whereupon the Speaker declared that John Merrym.au, of
Baltimore county, having received sixty-two votes, being a
majority of all the votes cast by the two branches of the Gen-
eral Assembly, was, under the provisions of the Constitution,
duly elected Treasurer of the State of Maryland, for the term
of two years. ,

On motion of Mr. Wootton,

At 2 3/4o'clock, P. M., the House adjourned until to-mor-
row at 12 o'clock, noon.