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Proceedings of the Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States in Maryland, 1789-1980
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On motion of Mr. Buchanan the following order was read
and adopted;
                    Ordered that we now proceed to fill the vacancy
existing in this College agreeably to the act of Assembly of
December Session 1833 chapter 261.
                    On motion of Mr. Carter
George M. Gill, Esquire was appointed to fill the vacancy
in this Body occasioned by the absence of the Hon. Richard
B. Carmichael.
George M. Gill, Esquire appeared in the Senate Chamber
qualified by taking the Oath prescribed by the Constitution
and the Laws and by declaring his belief in the Christian
Religion and took his seat,
On motion of Mr. Buchanan, a Committee of three was appointed
to wait upon the Governor and inform him of the Organization
of the College,
A Sealed Communication was received from His Excellency
Governor Whyte, by the hands of John J. Mason Secretary of
State, covering three certificates of the Election of the Electors
which was read, and
                            On motion by Mr. Carter was ordered
to lie on the Table,
On motion by Mr. Groome, a committee was appointed
to draft resolutions on the death of Hon. Horace Greeley.
The chair appointed Messers. Bradford, Buchanan and Walsh
as said Committee.
Mr. Bradford from said Committee reported the following
Resolutions.
Resolved, That the death of Horace Greeley under any circumstances
or at any time within the recent history of
our country would have awakened in the minds of large
numbers of the people genuine expressions of regret; but
occurring, as it does, when the people of this State were
about to cast for him to electoral vote for the highest
office in their gift (President of the United States), it
demands from this body as their representative for that
purpose an emphatic expression of the profound grief
with which the event has impressed us.
Resolved, That our regrets are by no means suggested by or
limited to his political relations, but looking to his life-long
career without reference to these, we mourn the event
as one which our people of every political inclination may


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