" By the senate, December 17, 1800:  Read the second time and will not pass.
                                                            " By order,                                                W. S.  GREEN, clk."
    Mr. Chapman, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to revive and continue the
acts of assembly therein mentioned, which was read the first and second time by especial order and passed.
    Mr. Nelson, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An additional supplement to the
act, entitled, An act for the establishment and regulation of the levy courts in the several counties of this state;
which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

    THE house met.  Present the same members as on yesterday.  The proceedings of yesterday were read.
    The supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, the bill relative to
the jurisdiction of the court of appeals, and the bill to revive and continue the acts of assembly therein mentioned,
were sent to the senate by the clerk.
    The bill, entitled, An additional supplement to the act, entitled, An act for the establishment and regulation
of the levy courts in the several counties of this state, was read the second time, passed, and sent to the senate
by the clerk.
    On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, A supplemental act to the act to streighten and amend the
post-road from Havre-de-Grace to Baltimore-town.  ORDERED, That Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Chapman and Mr.
Smith, of Baltimore, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.
    Mr. Johnson, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act respecting the fees if the
county clerks and registers of wills; which was read the first time, and referred to the consideration of the next
general assembly.
    RESOLVED, That the printer to the state be and he is hereby directed to continue to print the laws of the
state of Maryland on paper of the same size of that on which the laws of November session, 1799, are printed,
to the end that they may be conveniently bound up for the use of the state.
    Mr. Montgomery, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, A supplemental act to the
act to streighten and amend the post-road from Havre-de-Grace to Baltimore-town; which was read the first and
second time by especial order, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.
    On motion, Leave given to bring in a further supplement to the act for building a new gaol in Baltimore county.
ORDERED, That Mr. Smith, of Baltimore, Mr. Nelson and Mr. Johnson, be a committee to prepare and
bring in the same.
    The following resolution being propounded to the house, was read the first and second time, assented to, and
sent to the senate by the clerk.
    RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore pay to the examiner-general of the western shore such
sum, in addition to his fees for the present year, as shall, in the whole, amount to the sum of £. 300, and the examiner-general
shall lay before the next session of assembly the amount of fees by him received in this year on
oath.
    The following resolution being propounded to the house, was read the first and second time, assented to, and
sent to the senate by the clerk.
    Whereas it is represented to this general assembly, that negro Ben, the slave of Thomas Wing, of Caroline
county, was tried and convicted of murder at the eastern shore general court, held at the court-house in the
town of Easton, in September, eighteen hundred, which said sentence was commuted, and that the said slave was
valued by the court to the sum of eighty pounds current money; therefore, RESOLVED, That the treasurer of
the western shore pay to the said Thomas Wing. or order, the sum of eighty pounds current money, the valuation
of the said negro slave Ben.
    ORDERED, That the committee of claims allow John Truman the sum of sixty dollars for his trouble in taking
care of the furniture of the house of delegates for the ensuing year.
    ORDERED, That the committee of claims allow to the reverend Mr. Wyatt the sum of eighty dollars for his
services during this session of assembly, and that the same be placed on the journal of accounts.
    Mr. Smith, of Baltimore, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, A further supplement
to the act for building a new gaol in Baltimore county; which was read the first and second time by especial
order, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.
    The clerk of the senate delivers the bill to aid and amend defects in the records, papers and proceedings, in
the register of wills office of Harford county, endorsed; " By the senate, December 11, 1800: Read the first
" time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W. S.  GREEN, clk.
" By the senate, December 17, 1800:  Read the second time and will pass with the proposed amendments.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W. S.  GREEN, clk."
    Which amendments were read the first and second time, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.