VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1805. 15

teen hundred and ———, and that the said William Gardiner be and he is hereby indulged in the payment of the
said balance till the period before mentioned; provided, that the judgment aforesaid shall continue and be in
full force, notwithstanding the suspension of proceedings directed by this resolution, and if the balance that
will then be due on the aforesaid judgment be not paid by the time aforesaid, an execution may again be issued
against the said William Gardiner to enforce the payment thereof.

By order, L. GASSAWAY, clk.
Which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

A petition from Elizabeth Crabb and Richard Orme, of Montgomery county, stating, that Henry Wright
Crabb devised 150 acres of land, part of the Resurvey on Valentine's Garden, to William Williams and his
heirs, so as to include the houses wherein Laurence Owen formerly kept tavern, and praying that a law may
pass authorising some person or persons to lay off the same, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Watts,
Mr. Linthicum and Mr. Van-Horn, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from David Street, of Harford county, praying that a law may pass authorising persons to award
the damages sustained by him in consequence of a road running through his plantation, was preferred, read,
and referred to Mr. Ayres, Mr. Montgomery and Mr. Forwood, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Harford county, praying that a law may pass to streighten and establish
a road leading from the Rock Run, where Peach Bottom road crosses the same near Patrick Smith's, through
the widow Smithson's land, to intersect the Black House road at Myers's mill, on Deer creek, was preferred,
read, and referred to Mr. Street, Mr. Ayres and Mr. Montgomery, to consider and report thereon.

On motion, ORDERED, That the governor be requested to lay before this house any written communications
received by the executive from Samuel Chase, Esq; during the recess of the legislature, on the subject of the
bank stock in the English funds.

A petition from Anne Welch, of Anne-Arundel county, praying a law may pass authorising the levy court
to levy a sum of money for her support, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Dorsey, Mr. Merriken and
Mr. Mercer, to consider and report thereon.

The speaker laid before the house a letter from the governor, with a letter therein enclosed from Samuel
Chase, Esq; relative to the bank stock.

On the second reading of the resolution proposing that a part of the communications of the executive relative
to the bank stock should not be considered as confidential, the question was put, That the words " as autho-
rises the said agent, " be stricken out? The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:
AFFIRMATIVE.

J Gale, B Mackall, Cox, Nicholson, Waters, Forwood, Turpin, Smith,
Merriken, Somervell, Moffit, Gleaves, Cockey, Ayres, Jump, Yates,
Dorsey, Lemmon, Porter, Duer, Kuhn, Street, Stephen, Tomlinson,
Higgins, Harryman, Sudler, Hawkins. Montgomery, Bayard, Bowles, Rizer. 34.

Holland, Smoot,

NEGATIVE.

Neale, Hum, M'Pherson, Denny, Frazier, Hall, Shaaff, Selby,
Hebb, Mercer, Chapman, Dickinson, Ennalls, Contee, Sturgis, Watts,
Plater, R Mackall, Ogden, Jackson, Ward, Callis, Bishop, Linthicum. 31.

Leigh, Parnham, Spencer, Hyland, Van-Horn, Muir, Carroll,

So it was resolved in the affirmative.

On motion, the question was put, That the words " marked No. 3, giving an opinion to the agent as purport-
ing to authorise him, " be inserted in lieu of the words stricken out of the said resolution ? Determined in the

negative.

On motion, the question was then put, That the words " intimates the opinion of the executive to the said
agent that he would be authorised, " be inserted in lieu of the words stricken out aforesaid? Resolved in the

affirmative.

The resolution being read throughout, on motion, the question was put, That the following be received as

from divulging the contents of the letter from the executive to Joseph H. Nicholson, Esq; signed by his excel-
lency Robert Bowie, and dated In council, Annapolis, May 20, 1805. " Determined in the negative.
The question was then put, That the house concur with the said resolution ? Resolved in the affirmative.

SATURDAY, November 16, 1805.

THE house met. Present the same members as on yesterday. The proceedings of yesterday were read.
Mr. Frederick Holbrook, a delegate returned for Caroline county, appeared, and after qualifying in the mode
prescribed by the constitution and form of government, and taking an oath to support the constitution of the
United States, took his seat in the house.

Petitions from Philip Bier, senior, and Louis Barbarin, of the city of Baltimore, praying acts of insolvency,
were preferred, read, and referred to the committee appointed or petitions of a similar nature.