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Proceedings of the House of Delegates, 1800
Volume 92, Page 30   View pdf image (33K)
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30            VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November Session, 1800.

    The following message being prepared, was sent to the senate by the clerk.

BY the HOUSE of DELEGATES, November 19, 1800.
        GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE,
    WE feel great anxiety to bring the session to a speedy close, and believing that there will be no business of
importance to detain us, we propose, with your concurrence, to adjourn on the 29th instant.
                                                                By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk.
    The report on the petition of George Campbell was read the second time, the resolution therein contained
assented to, and sent to the senate by the clerk.
    The clerk of the senate delivers a petition from Joseph Calman and Louis Du Bourg, of the city of Baltimore,
praying an act of insolvency, endorsed; " By the senate, November 19, 1800:  Read and referred to the consideration
" of the house of delegates.
                                                                " By order,                                                  W. S.  GREEN, clk.
Which was read, and referred to the committee appointed on petitions of a similar nature.
    The report on the peition of sundry inhabitants of Talbot 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.
    Mr. Denny, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to confirm the proceedings of
the levy court of Talbot county respecting a road therein mentioned; which was read the first time and ordered
to lie on the table.
    The clerk of the senate delivers the following message:
BY the SENATE, November 19, 1800.
        GENTLEMEN,
    FEELING equal anxiety with you to put as speedy an end to the session as the indispensable business of it
will admit, and save an unnecessary expence to the state, we accede to your proposition of adjourning on the
twenty-ninth instant.
                                                                By order,                                                    W. S.  GREEN, clk.
Which was read.
    Mr. Worthington, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the petition of Cornelius H. Gist, late sheriff and collector of Baltimore
county, report, that they have taken the same into consideration, and are of opinion that the prayer thereof
is reasonable, and ought to be granted.
                                                                By order,                                                    J. S.  BETTON, clk.
    Which was read the first and 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.
    The report on the petition of Joseph Cresap, and others, 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.
The house adjourns till to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.

T    H    U    R    S    D    A    Y,    November 20, 1800.

    THE house met.  Present the same members as on yesterday.  The proceedings of yesterday were read.
    Mr. Montgomery, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to aid and amend
defects in the records, papers and proceedings, in the register of wills office of Harford county and to prescribe
the form of the register's bond in said county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the
table.
    On motion, Leave given to bring in a supplement to the act, entitled, An act for the relief of the poor of
Caroline county.  ORDERED, That Mr. Orrell, Mr. Mason and Mr. Clarke, be a committee to prepare and
bring in the same.
    Mr. Harwood, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the petition of sundry inhabitants of Anne-Arundel county report,
that they have taken the same into consideration, and are of opinion, the prayer of the petitioners appearing
reasonable, ought to be granted.
                                                                    By order,                                                    R. K. WATTS, clk.
Which was read.
    On motion, Leave given to bring a bill to repeal an act for the more effectual preservation of the breed of
wild deer in Somerset and Dorchester counties.  ORDERED, That Mr. Chapman, Mr. Dashiell and Mr. Lowes,
be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.
    A petition from sundry creditors of Gittings and Smith, counter to their petition, was preferred, read, and
referred to the committee appointed on the petition to which it is counter.

 

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