The report on the petition of sundry inhabitants of Washington county was read the second time and concurred
with.
    On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill for the destruction of squirrels in Caroline county.  ORDERED, That
Mr. Mason, Mr. Douglass and Mr. Orrell, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.
    Mr. Chapman, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to authorise and empower
the levy court of Charles county to assess and levy a sum of money for the purpose of repairing and improving
the public road leading from Port-Tobacco through the Zachia Swamp at the Old Bridges; which was read the
first time and ordered to lie on the table.
    Mr. Mason, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act for the destruction of squirrels
in Caroline county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
    On motion, ORDERED, That the report of the committee of finance be committed for amendment.
    Mr. Cresap, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the petition of William McMahan, and others, securities of Robert
Sinclair, late sheriff and collector of Allegany county, report, that they have taken the same into consideration,
and are of opinion they ought to be relieved, by a releasement from the nine per cent. imposed on them for the
default of said Sinclair, and that a law ought to pass, authorising and empowering them, in a summary way, to
collect from the inhabitants of Allegany county the out standing balances due said Sinclair, as sheriff and collector
as aforesaid, on proper terms and restrictions to be contained in the law.
                                                        By order,                                                            J.  HARWOOD, clk.
Which was read.
    The bill for the destruction of squirrels in Caroline county, was read the second time by especial order, passed,
and sent to the senate by the clerk.
    On motion, Leave given to bring in a further supplementary act to the act, entitled, An act for the regulation 
of officers fees.  ORDERED, That Mr. Chapman, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Harwood and Mr. Smith, of
Baltimore, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.
    A petition from James Booker, and others, of Talbot county, praying their bond, as securities of William S.
Bond to the state, for caution money on certain lands in Allegany county, may be cancelled, was preferred, read,
and referred to Mr. Edmondson, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Dashiell, to consider and report thereon.
    Mr. Mercer, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the report of the committee of finance as amended;
which was read.
    On the second reading the said report, the question was put, That the house concur with the second proposition
in said report?  Resolved in the affirmative.
    On progression in reading the said report, the question was put, That the house concur with the second proposition
in said report?  Resolved in the affirmative, and leave given to bring in a bill pursuant thereto.  ORDERED,
That the committee of finance prepare and bring in the same.
    The clerk of the senate delivers the resolution in favour of Samuel Bond, executor of Henry Sothoron, endorsed;
" By the senate, November 21, 1800:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                " By order,                                                                W. S.  GREEN, clk.
" By the senate, November 24, 1800:  Read the second time and assented to.
                                                " By order,                                                                W. S.  GREEN, clk.
The resolution in favour of Joshua Jarboe, endorsed; " By the senate, November 21, 1800:  Read the first time
" and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                " By order,                                                                W. S.  GREEN, clk.
" By the senate, November 24, 1800:  Read the second time and assented to.
                                                " By order,                                                                W. S.  GREEN, clk.
The resolution in favour of David Kerr, endorsed; " By the senate, November 20, 1800:  Read the first time
" and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                " By order,                                                                W. S.  GREEN, clk.
" By the senate, November 24, 1800:  Read the second time and dissented from.
                                                " By order,                                                                W. S.  GREEN, clk.
The bill authorising Cornelius Howard Gist, late collector of Baltimore county, to complete his collections, endorsed;
" By the senate, November 20, 1800:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                " By order,                                                                W. S.  GREEN, clk.
" By the senate, November 24, 1800:  Read the second time and will pass.
                                                " By order,                                                                W. S.  GREEN, clk.
The bill to lay out a road from Christopher Walker's mill, in Anne-Arundel county, to intersect the Frederick
turnpike road in Baltimore county at or near the seven mile stone on the said turnpike road, the bill to repeal an
act, entitled, An act for the more effectual preservation of the breed of wild deer in Somerset and Dorchester
counties, severally endorsed; " By the senate, November 21, 1800:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on
" the table.
                                                " By order,                                                                W. S.  GREEN, clk.