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VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November Session, 1800.
16. Every bill or resolution originated
in this house, or received from the senate, shall be read on two several
days, with an intermission of one day at least, during which time it shall
lie on the table for the perusal of the
members, unless on very urgent occasions the house shall, by special order,
dispense with this rule, which order
shall be entered on the journal.
17. Conferrees, and members appointed on
draughts, if required by three members, shall be elected by ballot,
and the number shall in no case exceed seven.
18. No bill or resolve shall have a second reading
until every member in the city be called upon to attend,
except he be excused by the house for indisposition, or necessary attendance
on the public business.
19. No petition, memorial, or other application
to the house, shall be received, unless presented by a member.
20. All questions of order shall be determined
by the speaker, but there may be an appeal by any member to
the house from the decision, and the determination of the house in such
cases of appeal shall be final.
21. No motion shall be made after the hour of
adjournment, without leave of the house.
22. All misdemeanors which shall happen in
the house, shall be censured or fined by the house.
23. No member shall answer on the yeas and nays
who did not divide on the question, and if any member
divides on one side, and answers on the other on the yeas and nays, the
same shall be noted on the journal at the
request of any member.
24. All fines imposed by the house shall be paid
to the clerk, and applied as the house shall direct.
25. The substance of all petitions, memorials
or other applications, shall be entered on the journal.
26. The clerk of the house shall, during the
first week of the session, put into the hands of the speaker a correct
list of all papers referred from the preceding session.
27. On motion or debate, any member may call for
the reading any law, journal, record or other public
proceeding, which may relate to the subject matter.
28. No member shall take out of the house any
bill or other paper belonging to the house, without the leave of
the speaker, under the penalty of such fine as may be imposed by the speaker,
not exceeding forty shillings.
29. No member shall nominate more than one person
on any committee, and in making such nomination shall
rise and address himself to the speaker.
30. On an election to any office of trust
or profit, no ballot shall be counted unless the person for whom the
ballot shall be given be named to the house before the ballotting be
gone into.
31. All the members present shall divide on every
question, unless excused by the house, or on calling the yeas
and nays his refusal shall be noted on the journal at the request of
any member.
32. Whenever a motion shall be made, or question
propounded to the house, and not seconded, no other business
shall be received until the speaker shall inform the house that the motion
or proposition first made is not seconded.
33. No motion for reconsideration shall be permitted,
unless made and seconded by two members who were in
the majority on the original question.
34. When a blank is to be filled up, and different
sums, numbers or times, shall be proposed, the question
shall be first taken on the largest sum or number, and on the latest time.
35. When the house adjourns, every member shall
rise in his place, and remain until the speaker go forth.
All which is submitted to the house.
By order,
L. GASSAWAY, clk.
Which was read.
The following message being prepared, was sent to
the senate by the clerk.
BY the HOUSE of DELEGATES, November 5, 1800.
GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE,
WE have appointed Mr. McPherson, Mr. Montgomery, Mr.
Jones, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bond, a committee
on the part of this house, to join such gentlemen as you may nominate,
to form a committee of both houses to
compare and examine all bills from time to time during the session as soon
as they shall be severally engrossed.
By order,
W. HARWOOD, clk.
Petitions from Levi Butler, of Charles county, and Robert
Green, of Dorchester county, praying acts of insolvency,
were preferred, read, and referred to the committee appointed on petitions
of a similar nature.
Mr. Goldsborough, from the committee, delivers to the
speaker the following report:
THE committee to whom was referred the petition of sundry
inhabitants of Dorchester county, beg leave to
report, that they have examined the facts set forth in said petition, and
are of opinion that the prayer thereof
is reasonable, and ought to be granted.
By order,
J. HARWOOD, clk.
The house adjourns till to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.
T H U R
S D A Y,
November 6, 1800.
THE house met. Present the same members as
on yesterday. The proceedings of yesterday were read.
The speaker laid before the house a letter from the trustee of the state,
enclosing an account current of
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