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VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November Session, 1800.
The house proceeded to ballot for a senator to represent
this state in the senate of the United States, to supply
the vacancy produced by the resignation of James Lloyd, Esquire, and
the ballots being deposited in the ballot
box, the gentlemen named to strike retired, and after some time returned
and reported, that William Hindman,
Esquire, had a majority of votes.
Whereupon RESOLVED, That William Hindman, Esquire,
be, and he is hereby declared to be, senator to
represent this state in the senate of the United States.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
pay unto William Kilty, out of any unappropriated
monies that may be in the treasury, four thousand dollars, after the
first day of January next, in full for his
services in compiling his edition of the laws of Maryland.
Sent to the senate by the clerk.
On motion, the question was put on the following,
viz.
RESOLVED, That the senators of this state in the
congress of the United States, be and they are hereby instructed
to use their best endeavours to obtain the following amendment of the
constitution of the United States.
First. That after the third day of
March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, the choice of
electors of president and vice-president shall be made, by the legislature
of each state dividing the state into a
number of districts equal to the number of electors to be chosen in
such state, and by the persons in each of
those districts, who shall have the qualifications requisite for electors
of the most numerous branch of the legislature
of such state, choosing one elector in the manner which the legislature
thereof shall prescribe, which
districts, when so divided, shall remain unalterable until a new census
of the United States shall be obtained.
Second. That the election of representatives
to serve after the third day of March, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and three, shall be, by dividing each state by the legislature
thereof into a number of districts
equal to the number of representatives to which such state shall be
entitled, and by the people within each of
those districts, who shall have the qualifications requisite for electors
of the most numerous branch of the legislature
of such state, choosing one representative in the manner which the
legislature thereof shall prescribe, which
districts, when so divided, shall remain unalterable until a new census
of the United States shall be obtained.
RESOLVED, That the president of the senate, and
the speaker of this house, be requested forthwith to transmit
the foregoing resolve to the senators of this state in congress; and
that the governor and council be and they
are hereby requested to communicate the same to the supreme executives
of the several states, with a request,
that they may be submitted to the consideration of their respective
legislatures.
The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:
A F F I
R M A T
I V E.
Messieurs.
Leigh,
Neale,
Hebb,
Millard,
Angier,
Parker,
Harwood,
Mercer,
Dorsey,
Blake, |
Carcaud,
Estep,
Stuart,
Chapman,
McPherson,
Worthington,
Lemmon,
Stansbury,
Love,
Lloyd, |
Edmondson,
Rose,
Lowes,
Hyland,
Dashiell,
Holbrook,
S. Frazier,
Steele,
Goldsborough,
Gilpin, |
Sheredine,
Miller,
Forman,
Somervell,
Cramphin,
Quynn,
Johnson,
C. Frazier,
Thompson, |
Lowrey,
Gunby,
Purnell,
Shriver,
Hawkins,
Nelson,
Kemp,
Street,
E. Davis, |
Bond,
Montgomery,
Mason,
Orrell,
Clarke,
Douglas,
McCulloch,
Cellar,
Smith, of Wash. |
Geoghegan,
Cromwell,
Magruder,
T. Davis,
Veatch,
Cresap,
Cresap, of Mich.
Simkins,
Gebhart.
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T I V E.
Messieurs
Jones,
Smith, of Balt.
2.
So it was resolved in the affirmative.
The order of the day is postponed till to-morrow morning.
The house adjourns till to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.
W E D N
E S D A
Y, December 10, 1800.
THE house met. Present the same members as
on yesterday. The proceedings of yesterday were read.
The resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution
of the United States, was sent to the senate
by the clerk.
A petition from William Gore, of Talbot county,
praying to be divorced from his wife, was preferred, read,
and referred to the next session of assembly.
A petition from sundry inhabitants of Frederick
county, praying an act may pass for laying out a road to the
city of Washington, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Nelson,
Mr. T. Davis and Mr. Worthington, to
consider and report thereon.
Mr. Montgomery, from the committee, delivers to
the speaker the following report:
THE committee to whom was referred the petition
of James Lytle, of Harford county, report, that the facts
therein stated are true, and are of opinion that relief ought to be
granted; the committee further find, that the
assignment of the part of Jones's Inheritance, mentioned in said petition,
was made by Nathaniel Ramsey to the
petitioner on the ninth day of May, seventeen hundred and ninety-four,
and that interest on the value of the
deficiency ought to be paid to said Lytle only from that day, and that
the whole amount of the original purchase
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