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Proceedings of the Senate, 1799
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VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November, 1799.            21

And a bill, entitled, A supplement to an act, entitled, An act for founding a college on the
western shore of this state, and constituting the same, together with Washington college on the
eastern shore, into one university, by the name of The University of Maryland, thus endorsed;
" By the house of delegates, December 13, 1799:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the
" table.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, December 16, 1799:  Read the second time and will pass.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk."
Which were severally read and ordered to lie on the table.
    The bill, entitled, An act to prevent the going at large of swine in the town of Lower-Marlborough,
in Calvert county, was read the second time by especial order and will pass.
    The bill, entitled, An act for the relief of Robert Gover, of Harford county, was read the
second time by especial order and will not pass.

The senate adjourns until to-morrow morning 10 o'clock.

T    U    E    S    D    A    Y,    December 17, 1799.

    THE senate met.  Present the same members as on yesterday.  Mr. Goldsborough appeared
in the senate.  The proceedings of yesterday were read.

By the SENATE, December 17, 1799.
    TO give the people a public opportunity of regretting the irreparable loss which their country
hath sustained by the death of general George Washington, RESOLVED unanimously, That a|
message from the legislature be communicated to the governor, requesting him to appoint, by proclamation,
a day of mourning, humiliation and prayer, throughout this state, and to recommend
it to the citizens thereof to assemble in their respective places of worship, to testify, in the most
public manner, their veneration for his memory, and to derive, from the just eulogiums of his
meritorious services, the best motives for the imitation of his virtues.
                                                        By order,                                  A.  VAN-HORN, clk.    
    On motion, ORDERED, That Mr. Carroll and Mr. Forrest communicate the above resolution to
the house of delegates.
    Messieurs Key and Tilghman, from the house of delegates, deliver to the president the resolution
afore-mentioned, thus endorsed; " By the house of delegates, December 17, 1799:  Read 
" the first and second time by especial order and unanimously assented to.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk."
And also the following resolution:
By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, December 17, 1799.
    THE general assembly of Maryland, feeling the most undissembled sorrow for the irreparable
loss of the illustrious Washington, and anxious to pay every tribute of respect to the memory of
the departed friend to his country, DO RESOLVE UNANIMOUSLY, That there be immediately furnished
a scarf and hatband for the governor, the president of the senate, and each of the attending
members of the senate, the speaker, and each of the attending members of the house of delegates,
the members of the council, each of the officers and clerks attached to the senate and
house of delegates, the chancellor, and such of the judges of the general court, and all other
officers of the state and general government, as are now in the city of Annapolis, to be worn
during the session as the external mark of their unfeigned grief.
                                                        By order,                                  W.  HARWOOD, clk.
    Which was read the first and second time by especial order, unanimously assented to, and sent
to the house of delegates by Mr. Carroll and Mr. Forrest.
The senate adjourns until to-morrow morning 10 o'clock.

W    E    D    N    E    S    D    A    Y,    December 18, 1799.

    THE same members appeared as on yesterday.  The proceedings of yesterday were read.
    The senate adjourns until to-morrow morning 10 'clock.

T    H    U    R    S    D    A    Y,    December 19, 1799.

    THE senate met.  Present the same members as on yesterday, except Mr. Campbell, who had
leave of absence, and Mr. Hammond, who is indisposed.  The proceedings of yesterday
were read.
    Mr. Dennis, from the committee appointed to consider and report on the bill, entitled, An act
for appointing a wreck-master in Worcester county, reported the said bill with certain amendments.
    The said bill was read the second time, and passed with the proposed amendments.
    Amendments proposed.  In the third line of the first page strike out from the word "whereas"
to the word "many" in the fifth line thereof, and insert " from the exposure of the south-east
bounds of Worcester county to the Atlantic ocean." Strike out the words " character and capacity"
in the two last lines of the first page, and insert "office."  In the nineteenth line of the
third page strike out the word "account" and insert the words " amount of such salvage so to
be adjudged."  In the same line strike out the word "five" and insert the word "thirty."  In
the first line of the fourth page strike out the words " and costs if any."  In the second line of

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