88 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1805.

NEGATIVE.

Neale, Horn, Ogden, Bayly, Frazier, Callis, Ayres, Selby,

Plater, Gals, Lemmon, Cottman, Ward, Sturgis, Turpin, Watts,

Scott, B. Mackall, Jackson, Hyland, Smoot, Bishop, Jump, Linthicum. 26.

Hanson, M'Pherson,

So it was resolved in the affirmative.

On progression, the question was put, That the second blank in said clause be filled up with the words " fif-
teen hundred?" The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Plater, Higgins, Chapman, Muir, Gleaves, Hawkins, Montgomery, Stephen,
Merriken, Stuart, Lloyd. Shaaff, Bishop, Kuhn, Ellicott,. Carroll 20.
Dorsey, Parnham, Dickinson, Sudler,

NEGATIVE.

Neale, B. Mackall, Harryman, Frazier, Callis, Holbrook, Bowles, Watts,

Scott, Somervell, Jackson, Ward, Sturgis, Bayard, Smith, Linthicum,

Hanson, M'Pherson, Bayly, Smoot, Forwood, Turpin, Yates, Bruce,

Hunt, Ogden, Cottman, Cox, Ayres, Jump, Selby, Rizer. 26.

Gale, Lemmon, Hyland, Porter,

So it was determined in the negative.

The question was then put, That the said blank be filled up with " fourteen hundred ?" The yeas and nays
being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Plater, Stuart, Denny, Shaaff, Bishop, Montgomery, Ellicott, Yates,

Merriken, Parnham, Lloyd, Sudler, Hawkins, Forwood, Stephen, Carroll,
Dorsey, M'Pherson, Dickinson, Gleaves, Cockey, Holbrook, Bowles, Bruce,
Higgins, Chapman, Muir, Sturgis, Kuhn, Bayard, Smith, Tomlinson. 35.

NEGATIVE.

Neale, Gale, Lemmon, Cottman, Ward, Potter, Turpin, Watts,

Scott, B. Mackall, Harryman, Hyland, Smoot, Callis, Jump, Linthicum,

Hanson, Somervell, Jackson, Frazier, Cox, Ayres, Selby, Rizer. 27.,

Hurtt, Ogden, Bayly,

So it was resolved in the affirmative.
The following message was read and agreed to.

BY THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES, January 14, 1806.
GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE,

UPON reconsidering the bill, entitled, An act to establish permanent salaries for the judges of the six judi-
cial districts in this state, we have agreed to raise the salary of the chief judges of the six judicial districts to
two thousand two hundred dollars, and that of the associate judges to fourteen hundred, and send back the bill
for your reconsideration, and hope that the bill will pass your house with the salaries fixed therein.

By order, J. BREWER, clk.
The house adjourns until to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.

WEDNESDAY, January 15, 1806.

THE house met. Present the same members as on yesterday, except Mr. Moffit. The proceedings of
yesterday were read.

The bill to establish permanent salaries for the judges of the six judicial districts in this state, with the mes-
sage relative thereto, the bill erecting a town at or near the mouth of Will's creek, in Allegany county, the
supplement to the act, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry Insolvent debtors, passed at November session,
eighteen hundred and three, the bill to provide for the erection of a new court-house for Baltimore county, and
the resolutions in favour of Martha Hall, Patrick Murdock, Anthony Fox, Hezekiah Speake and Robert Elli-
ott, were sent to the senate by the clerk.

The report of the committee on the petition of David Hopkins, was read the second time and the resolution
therein contained assented to.

Mr. Stephen, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the following report:

Whereas it appears by the petition of Samuel Moale, that he has been appointed trustee for the benefit of the
creditors of Mark Alexander, deceased, an insolvent debtor: And whereas it also appears that the said Mark
Alexander, in his life-time, paid into the treasury of the western shore the sum of eighty-one pounds four shil-
lings and two-pence current money, in pursuance of an act of assembly, entitled, An act for calling out of cir-
culation the quota of this state of the bills of credit emitted by acts of assembly under the old government:
And whereas the said sum of money still remains in the treasury, liable to be returned to the legal representa-
tives of the said Alexander, in virtue of a resolution passed at November session, 1797, but the treasurer con-
ceiving himself not authorised to pay the same over to a trustee for the benefit of the creditors of an insolvent
debtor, therefore, RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore be and he is hereby authorised and di-
rected to pay unto Samuel Moale, or his order, the sum of eighty-one pounds four shillings and two-pence
current money, being the sum so as aforesaid paid into the treasury by Mark Alexander deceased, to be