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Proceedings of the House of Delegates, 1800
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16            VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November Session, 1800

    Mr. Worthington, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act declaring a road or
street leading from the Reister's-town turnpike road to intersect Howard-street a public highway; which was
read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
    A petition from Henry King, of Somerset county, an alien, praying a confirmation of his title to certain lands,
was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Wilson, Mr. Jones and Mr. Dashiell, to consider and report thereon.
    The clerk of the senate delivers a letter from the governor relative to the act to incorporate a company for
the purpose of cutting and making a canal between the river Delaware and Chesapeake bay, and an address
from the council, containing an account of their proceedings in reference to sundry acts of the legislature at the
last session, endorsed; " By the senate, November 11, 1800:  Ordered to be referred to the consideration of the
" house of delegates.
                                                                " By order,                                                    W. S.  GREEN, clk.
Which were read.
    The following message being prepared, was sent to the senate by the clerk.

BY the HOUSE of DELEGATES, November 11, 1800.
        GENTLEMEN,
    WE propose to proceed immediately to the election of a council to the governor.  William Kilty, Thomas
Buchanan, John Scott, Allen B. Duckett, Samuel Ridout, Arthur Shaaf, John Davidson, James Thomas, Francis
Digges and Reverdy Ghiselin, Esquires, are put in nomination by this house.  We have appointed Mr. Smith,
Baltimore, and Mr. Charles Frazier, to join any gentlemen named by your house to examine the ballots.
                                                                By order,                                                        W.  HARWOOD, clk.
    The clerk of the senate delivers the following message:
BY the SENATE, November 11, 1800.
        GENTLEMEN,
    WE agree to proceed immediately to the election of a council to the governor, and have appointed Nicholas
Hammond and Charles Goldsborough, junior, Esquires, to join the members of your house in the examination of
the ballots.  No person is named by this house in addition to those mentioned in your message.
                                                                By order,                                                        W. S.  GREEN, clk.
Which was read.
    The house having qualified agreeably to the constitution and form of government, proceeded to the choice of a
council to the governor, and the ballots being deposited in the ballot box, the gentlemen named to strike retired,
and after some time returned and reported, that Thomas Buchanan, Arthur Shaaf, James Thomas, John Davidson
and Samuel Ridout, Esquires, had a majority of votes.
    Whereupon RESOLVED, That Thomas Buchanan, Arthur Shaaf, James Thomas, John Davidson and Samuel
Ridout, Esquires, be, and they are hereby declared to be, the council to the governor.
    The clerk of the senate delivers the following message:
BY the SENATE, November 11, 1800.
        GENTLEMEN,
    WE propose on Thursday next, (if agreeable to your house,) to go into a joint ballot for the election of a
senator to represent this state in the senate of the United States after the third day of March next.
                                                                By order,                                                        W. S.  GREEN, clk.
Which was read.
    On motion, the question was put, That a committee be appointed to prepare an answer to the above message?
The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:
A    F    F    I    R    M    A    T    I    V    E.
Messieurs
Angier,
Parker,
Chambers,
Hanson,
Harwood,
Mercer,		 Dorsey,
Carcaud,
Estep,
Worthington,
Lemmon,
Stansbury		 Love,
Lloyd,
Rose,
Gilpin,
Sheredine,
Miller,		 Forman,
Johnson,
C. Frazier,
Thompson,
Lowrey,
Shriver,		 Hawkins,
Nelson,
Kemp,
Street,
E. Davis,
Bond,		 Montgomery,
Mason,
Orrell,
Clarke,
Douglas,
Smith, of Balt.		 McCulloch,
Cellar,
Smith, of Wash.
Geoghegan,
Cromwell.
41.
N    E    G    A    T    I    V    E.
Messieurs
Leigh,
Neale,
Hebb,
Millard,
Parran,
Blake,		 Stuart,
Chapman,
McPherson,
Jones,
Denny,		 Edmondson,
Lowes,
Hyland,
Dashiell,
Holbrook,		 S. Frazier,
Steele,
Pattison,
Goldsborough,
Somervell,		 Addison,
Cramphin,
Marbury,
Quynn,
Gunby,		 Wilson,
Purnell,
Magruder,
T. Davis,
Veatch,		 Beall,
Cresap,
Cresap, of Mich.
Simkins,
Gebhart.
36.
So it was resolved in the affirmative.
    The house proceeded to ballot for a committee, and the ballots being deposited in the ballot box, the gentlemen
named to strike retired, and after some time reported, that Mr. Mercer, Mr. Smith, of Baltimore, and Mr.
Johnson, were elected.
    A petition from Zadock Long, and others, of Somerset county, praying an act may pass appointing commissioners
to lay out the town of Princess-Anne anew, and also to appoint a person to patrol the said town, was preferred,
read, and referred to Mr. Dashiell, Mr. Holbrook and Mr. Hyland, to consider and report thereon.
 

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