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

    Mr. Bond, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the petition of sundry inhabitants of Harford county report, that they
have taken the same into consideration, and are of opinion the prayer of the petition is reasonable, and ought to
be granted.
                                                                    By order,                                            L.  GASSAWAY, 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.
    Mr. Street, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, A further supplement to an act, entitled,
An act to streighten and amend the public roads in Harford county, and for other purposes; which was
read the first and second time by especial order, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.
    A petition from Elizabeth Presley, of the city of Annapolis, praying compensation for attending on sick
soldiers during the late war, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Mercer, Mr. Quynn and Mr. Johnson, to
consider and report thereon.
    The report on the petition of Martha Howard was read the second time, the resolution therein contained
assented to, and sent to the senate by the clerk.
    Mr. Beall has leave of absence.
    On the second reading the report on the memorial of William Kilty, the question was put, That the blank in
the resolution therein contained be filled up with four thousand dollars?  The yeas and nays being required,
appeared as follow:

A    F    F    I    R    M    A    T    I    V    E.
Messieurs.
Leigh,
Neale,
Hebb,
Angier,
Chambers,
Hanson,
Harwood,
Mercer,
Dorsey,		 Parran,
Blake, 
Carcaud,
Estep,
Stuart,
Chapman,
Jones,
Lemmon,
Lloyd,		 Lowes,
Edmondson,
Hyland,
Dashiell,
Steele,
Goldsborough,
Gilpin,
Forman,
Somervell,		 Addison,
Cramphin,
Marbury,
Quynn,
Johson,
C. Frazier,
Thompson,
Lowrey,		 Gunby,
Wilson,
Hawkins,
Kemp,
Street,
E. Davis,
Bond,
Montgomery,		 Mason, 
Clarke,
Smith, of Balt.
McCulloch,
Cellar,
Smith, of Wash.
Geoghegan,
Cromwell,		 Magruder,
T. Davis, 
Veatch,
Beall,
Cresap,
Cresap, of Mich.
Simkins,
Gebhart.
59.
N    E    G    A    T    I    V    E.
Messieurs.
McPherson,
Worthington,		 Stansbury,
Love,		 Denny,
Holbrook,		 S. Frazier,
Pattison,		 Purnell,
Shriver,		 Orrell,
 		 Douglass
12.
So it was resolved in the affirmative.
    The resolution being read throughout, the question was put, That the house assent thereto?  Resolved in the
affirmative, and sent to the senate by the clerk.
    Petitions from Robins Chamberlaine, of the city of Baltimore, Edward Stevenson and John Stevenson, of
Frederick county, praying acts of insolvency, were preferred, read, and referred to the committee appointed on
petitions of a similar nature.
    Mr. Kemp, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act for the relief of Frederick
Saler, of Frederick county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
    Mr. Montgomery, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the following report:
    The committee to whom was referred the account of Vachel Stevens, examiner-general of the western
shore, report, that they have had the same under their consideration, and find, from the second day of January
to the twenty-fourth day of November, eighteen hundred, two hundred and ten certificates have been examined
by said examiner, and that he has received for the same the sum of one hundred and ninety-seven pounds fifteen
shillings and nine-pence, as stated in said account.  All which is submitted.
                                                                By order,                                                    J. S.  BETTON, clk.
Which was read.
    Mr. Chambers, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the petition of James Hodges, of Kent county, report, that they have
examined into the facts stated in said petition, and find they are true, and therefore recommend the following
resolution:
    Whereas it is represented to this general assembly, that negro Simon, the slave of a certain James Hodges, of
Kent county, was convicted of murder at a court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery held for Baltimore
county, at the court-house in said county, in July, eighteen hundred, and was sentenced to be hanged, which
said sentence was committed to banishment out of the United States, and that the said slave was valued by the
said court to the sum of ninety pounds current money; therefore RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western
shore pay to the said James Hodges, or order, the sum of ninety pounds current money, the valuation of the
said negro slave Simon.
                                                            By order,                                                    L.  GASSAWAY, clk.
Which was read the first and second time, and the resolution therein contained assented to.
    The bill for the direction of surveyors in executing warrants of escheat in certain cases, was read the second
time and passed.

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