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" By the house of delegates, November 26, 1799: Read the second
time and will pass.
hereby authorised and required to compare the record BC and GS, No. 51, with the original certificates, and to correct them where necessary. By order, W. HARWOOD, clk. Which said bills and resolution were read and ordered to lie on the table. The following message was prepared, read, and agreed to. WE have duly considered your message of the twenty-third instant, proposing a conference upon sundry communications from the executive. The senate are of opinion that the claim of Henry Harford is the only subject upon which a conference ought to take place; in that case they adopt it as the most eligible and expeditious mode of obtaining the necessary information. Upon the other subjects they decline at present any conference. We have appointed Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, John Campbell and William Hammond Dorsey, Esquires, conferrees, to meet any gentlemen you may name to confer upon such part of the communications as relate to the claim of Henry Harford. By order, A. VAN-HORN, clk. The bill, entitled, An act to correct a mistake in an act, entitled, An act for the relief of Andrew Buchanan, and to confirm all proceedings had, or hereafter to be had, under said act and a certain deed of trust therein referred to, was read the second time by especial order and will pass. Mr. Forrest has leave of absence will Monday week next. W E D N E S D A Y, November 27, 1799. THE senate met. Present the same members as
on yesterday, except Mr. Forrest, who had T H U R S D A Y, November 28, 1799. THE senate met. Present the same members as
on yesterday. The proceedings of yesterday THE claim of Henry Harford against this state, upon which you propose a conference, is certainly an object of great magnitude, but we deem it only of secondary importance compared to the other subjects mentioned in our message. The communications from the executive of Pennsylvania respecting the Susquehanna navigation, and the canal from the Chesapeake to the Delaware, and the situation of our bank stock in England, appeared to us in a peculiar degree to demand a conference, that the joint information of the two houses might be freely interchanged. We adopted it from a conviction that the measure might produce salutary effects, might tend to unanimity in our deliberations, and thereby |
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