VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November Session, 1800.
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The order of the day respecting the petition of Rachel
Shipley, and the counter petition thereto, is postponed
till to-morrow morning.
The house adjourns till to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.
S A T U
R D A Y,
November 29, 1800.
THE house met. Present the same members as
on yesterday. The proceedings of yesterday were read.
Mr. Parker, from the committee, delivers to the
speaker the following report:
THE committee to whom was referred the petition
of John Woodall, of Kent county, report, that they have
taken the same into consideration, and are of opinion the prayer of
the petitioner is reasonable, and ought to be
granted.
By order,
J. S. BETTON, clk.
Which was read.
Petitions from sundry inhabitants of Harford county,
and York county, in Pennsylvania, praying an act may
pass for opening and laying out a road from Peach Bottom ferry, on
the Susquehanna, to Belle-Air, were preferred,
read, and referred to Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Street and Mr. E. Davis,
to consider and report thereon.
Petitions from Charles Wayman, of Montgomery county,
and Richard Stringer, junior, of Baltimore county,
praying acts of insolvency, were preferred, read, and referred to the
committee appointed on petitions of a similar
nature.
A petition from sundry inhabitants of Prince-George's
county, praying an act may pass to prevent swine going
at large in the town of Queen-Anne, in said county, was preferred,
read, and referred to Mr. Addison, Mr.
Marbury and Mr. Quynn, to consider and report thereon.
The additional supplement to the act passed at April
session, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled, An
act to lay out several turnpike roads in Baltimore county, was read
the second time, passed, and sent to the
senate by the clerk.
A petition from sundry inhabitants of Charles county,
praying the levy court may be authorised to levy a sum
of money on said county for the support of colonel Francis Ware, was
preferred, read, and referred to Mr.
Mercer, Mr. Mason, Mr. Dashiell, Mr. Nelson and Mr. Chambers, to consider
and report thereon.
A petition from William Lynch, of Baltimore county,
counter to the petition of William Kingsmore, was
preferred, read, and referred to the committee appointed on the petition
to which it is counter.
The clerk of the senate delivers the supplement
to an act, entitled, An act to establish a bank, and to incorporate
the subscribers thereto, and the following message:
BY the SENATE, November 28, 1800.
GENTLEMEN,
WE return you the bill, entitled, A supplement to
an act, An act to establish a bank, and incorporate
the subscribers thereto, with the expectation that on reconsideration
you will pass it. We originated it upon
the information that great inconvenience is felt from the rotation
of directors established by the twelfth section
in the act of incorporation. Persons, after having gained experience,
and conducted themselves with propriety,
in the direction, have been dismissed, merely in compliance with that
section. The selection of proper characters
for directors of the three banks in the city of Baltimore, even in
its most flourishing condition, occasioned
no small embarrassment, which has been greatly increased by the number
of late failures. If the bill should
meet your approbation, the directors will be still subject to the control
of the stockholders, who may displace
at such annual election those directors whose conduct or circumstances
might induce a majority of the stockholders
to think a change expedient, and conducive to the welfare of the institution.
By order,
W. S. GREEN, clk.
Which was read.
The house resumed the further consideration of the
order of the day respecting sundry applicants for acts of
insolvency, the memorial of the merchants of Baltimore, counter to
their applications, and the following
question was propounded to the house, viz.
RESOLVED, That it is the opinion of the house, that
the power of the state governments to pass insolvent laws
is not taken away or limitted to persons actually in confinement, by
the operation of the constitution of the
United States.
Which was read the first and second time, and the
question put, That the house assent thereto? The yeas and
nays being required, appeared as follow:
A F F I
R M A T
I V E.
Messieurs.
Leigh,
Neale,
Millard,
Angier,
Chambers,
Harwood,
Mercer,
Dorsey, |
Parran,
Blake,
Estep,
Chapman,
McPherson,
Worthington,
Lemmon,
Stansbury, |
Lloyd,
Edmondson,
Hyland,
S. Frazier,
Gilpin,
Miller,
Somervell,
Addison, |
Marbury,
Quynn,
Johnson,
C. Frazier,
Thompson,
Purnell,
Shriver,
Hawkins, |
Nelson,
Kemp,
Street,
E. Davis,
Bond,
Montgomery,
Mason,
Orrell, |
Clarke,
Douglas,
Cellar,
Smith, of Wash.
Geoghegan,
Cromwell,
Magruder, |
T. Davis,
Veatch,
Beall,
J. Cresap,
Cresap, of Mich.
Simkins,
Gebhart.
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