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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1796
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18            VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November, 1796.

" By the house of delegates, December 7, 1796:  Read the second time and will pass.
                                                                " By order,                                  W.  HARWOOD, clk."
And a bill, entitled, An act for recording a patent therein mentioned, thus endorsed; " By the house
" of delegates, December 7, 1796:  Read the first and second time by especial order and will pass.
                                                                " By order,                                  W.  HARWOOD, clk."
Which were severally read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

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

T    H    U    R    S    D    A    Y,    December 8, 1796.

    THE senate met.  Present the same members as on yesterday.  The proceedings of yesterday
were read.
    The bill, entitled, An act to allow further time for collecting the balances due to Thomas
O'Bryon, late sheriff and collector of Queen-Anne's county, decease, with the amendments thereto,
the bill, entitled, An act to repeal the thirty-third section of the act therein mentioned, the resolution
in favour of Benjamin Moreton, the bill, entitled, An act for the relief of Benjamin Moreton,
of Baltimore county, and the message respecting the resolution in favour of Benjamin Moreton,
were sent to the house of delegates by the clerk.
    The clerk of the house of delegates delivers to the clerk of the senate the following message:

By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, December 7, 1796.
        GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE,
    In answer to your message of yesterday we inform you, that we shall be ready, on Friday next,
to go into an election of a senator to represent this state in the senate of the United States after the
expiration of the term for which John Eager Howard was chosen, and we have framed the resolution
which accompanies this message, to which we request your concurrence.
                                                                By order,                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk.
    Which was read.
And also the following resolution:
By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, December 7, 1796.
    RESOLVED, That Friday the ninth instant be appointed for the election of a senator to represent
this state in the senate of the United States after the third day of March, seventeen hundred and
ninety-seven, to be a resident of the western-shore, and the person on the said shore having a majority
of votes of all the attending members of both houses, be declared to be duly elected to represent
this state in the senate of the Unites States for the term of six years; and that a commission issue
to the said senator, appointed as aforesaid, signed by the governor for the time being, or in his
absence by the presiding member of the council, in the following words, to wit:  The legislature
of Maryland reposing especial confidence in your integrity and abilities, hath appointed you senator
to represent this state in the senate of the United States for the term of six years, to commence on
the fourth day of March, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven.  Given under my hand, and the seal
of this state, this -------- day of ------------, anno domini -----------.
    Which was read the first and second time by especial order, assented to, and sent to the house of
delegates by the clerk.
    On motion, ORDERED, That the senate reconsider the resolution in favour of Valentine Lynn;
and upon reconsideration the said resolution was assented to.
    The bill, entitled, An act to explain and amend the thirty-third section of an act, entitled, An
act for the more effectual paving the streets of Baltimore-town, in Baltimore county, and for other
purposes, was read the second time and will pass, and, with the resolution in favour of Valentine
Lynn, was sent to the house of delegates by the clerk.
    The president communicates to the senate the petition of John Bowie, suggesting that a negro
man named Ned, was, by the court of Cæcil county, for larceny, sentenced to serve two years on
the roads, and praying that a law may pass empowering the commissioners of Baltimore county to
deliver the said Ned to him the said Bowie; which was read and referred to the honourable William
H. Dorsey, Esquire, to consider and report thereon.
    The senate having previously qualified, according to the constitution and form of government and
laws of this state, agreeably to the order of the day, proceeded to the election of a senator to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the honourable John Eager Howard, Esquire.  The ballot
box was prepared, the ballots deposited therein, and on examination thereof it appeared, that the
honourable David McMechen, Esquire, had a majority of votes.
    Whereupon it is declared in the senate, that the honourable David McMechen, Esquire, is duly
elected a member thereof.    
    The resolutions appointing commissioners respecting the western and southern limits of this state,
were read the second time, and assented to with the proposed amendment.
    Amendment proposed.  Strike out the first resolve and insert " Whereas by a resolution passed at
the last session of the general assembly of Maryland, William Pinkney, William Cooke and Philip
Barton Key, Esquires, were appointed commissioners on the part of this state to meet such commissioners
as may be appointed for the same purpose by the commonwealth of Virginia, to settle and 
adjust, by mutual compact between the two governments, the western and southern limits of this
state, and the dividing lines and boundaries between this state and the said commonwealth; and also to
settle and adjust as aforesaid any claim of this state, or the said commonwealth, to territory within
the limits of the other:  And whereas the said William Pinkney is now absent from this state, and

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