RESOLVED, That the several counter petitioners of the city of Baltimore to the petitions of sundry persons
praying acts of insolvency, be heard by counsel at the bar of this house on Tuesday the 25th day of November,
in support of their memorial.
                                                                By order,                                                    R. K.  WATTS, clk.
Which was read the first and second time and concurred with.
    On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill to incorporate a company for building bridges over the Great Falls
of Gunpowder, in Baltimore county, and Winter's Run, in Harford county, where the post-road leading from
Baltimore to Philadelphia intersects the same.  ORDERED, That Mr. Worthington, Mr. Montgomery and Mr.
Bond, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.
    The clerk of the senate delivers the resolution in favour of Edward Watts, endorsed; " By the senate, November
" 14, 1800:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                                " By order,                                                  W. S.  GREEN, clk.
" By the senate, November 17, 1800:  Read the second time and assented to.
                                                                " By order,                                                  W. S.  GREEN, clk.
And the bill to authorise and empower the levy court of Caroline county to assess and levy a sum of money for
the support of Solomon Cahall, Sarah Cahall, Mary Cahall and Aimey Cahall, endorsed; " By the senate, November
" 10, 1800:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                                " By order,                                                  W. S. GREEN, clk.
" By the senate, November 17, 1800:  Read the second time and will pass with the proposed amendment.
                                                                " By order,                                                  W. S.  GREEN, clk.
Which amendment was read,

    THE house met.  Present the same members as on yesterday.  The proceedings of yesterday were read.
    The report on petition of sundry inhabitants of Washington county was read the second time, concurred
with. and leave given to bring in a bill pursuant thereto.  ORDERED, That the committee appointed on
said petition prepare and bring in the same.
    Petitions from J. McMunn, of Frederick county, William Webb, John Hackett and Alexander Grant, and
Thorowgood Smith, praying acts of insolvency, were preferred, read, and referred to the committee appointed 
on petitions of a similar nature.
    The amendment to the bill to authorise and empower the levy court of Caroline county to assess and levy a
sum of money for the support of Solomon Cahall, and others, was read the second time, agreed to, and the bill
ordered to be engrossed.
    Mr. C. Frazier, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the report of the trustees of Washington academy, in Somerset county,
beg leave to report, that it appears to your committee the said trustees have complied with the provisions of
the act, entitled, An act for the promotion of literature within this state, and that they have drawn from the
treasury the sum of eight hundred dollars, in full of the appropriation to said academy for the year eighteen
hundred, and that they have appropriated said sum to the payment of the different teachers in said academy.
It further appears to your committee, that there are twenty-one students in the classical department, and thirteen
in the English school, amounting in the whole to thirty-four in said academy.
                                                                    By order,                                                    J. S.  BETTON, clk.
Which was read.
    The house, agreeably to the order of the day, took into consideration the memorial of Philip Barton Key, and
after hearing the memorialist at the bar of the house, the following question was propounded to the house and
read, viz.
    RESOLVED, That Allen Quynn and John Johnson, Esquires, the persons returned by the mayor, recorder and
aldermen, of the city of Annapolis, as delegates for the said city to the general assembly of Maryland, have
been duly elected, and are entitled to hold their seats in this house.
    ORDERED, That the further consideration of the same be postponed until to-morrow morning.

    THE house met.  Present the same members as on yesterday, except Mr. Sheredine.  The proceedings
of yesterday were read.
    Petitions from Lambert Smith and Peter A. Volckman, of the city of Baltimore, praying acts of insolvency,
were preferred, read, and referred to the committee on petitions of a similar nature.