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

    They beg leave likewise to submit the following resolutions:
    RESOLVED, That the sheriff of Baltimore county be and he is hereby directed to contract with the trustees of
the poor-house of said county for the cloathing, maintenance and support, of negro Daniel, during his natural
life, the said negro being the property of this state, and now under the care of Robert Long, of said county.
    RESOLVED, That the sheriff, after making the contract as aforesaid, make a return thereof to the treasurer of
the western shore, who is hereby directed to pay, in half yearly payments, the amount so contracted for, not
exceeding sixty dollars per annum, to said trustees, or their order; these resolutions to be of no effect, unless
the said Robert Long shall notify to the said sheriff that he will no longer support and maintain the said negro at
the price heretofore allowed to said Long for that purpose.
                                                                By order,                                                    J. S.  BETTON, clk.
Which was read.
    The amendments to the bill to rebuild the poor-house in Anne-Arundel county were read the second time and
rejected.
    The following message being prepared, was read, agreed to, and sent to the senate, with the bill to rebuild
the poor-house in Anne-Arundel county, by the clerk.

BY the HOUSE of DELEGATES, December 18, 1800.
        GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE,
    WE have rejected your amendments to the bill, entitled, An act to rebuild the poor-house in Anne-Arundel
county, and we hope that on reconsideration you will be induced to recede therefrom.
                                                                    By order,                                                W.  HARWOOD, clk.
    The amendments to the bill, entitled, An act to enable the mayor and city council of baltimore to introduce
water into the said city, were read the second time, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.
    The following resolutions being propounded to the house, were 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 a direct and convenient communication, by a road or
roads leading from the town of Cumberland, in Allegany county, to the western counties of Pennsylvania, Virginia,
and the North Western Territory, would be of great public utility; therefore, RESOLVED, That Henry
Kemp, of Frederick county, David Lynn, Joseph Cresap and Benjamin Beckworth, of Allegany county, and
Robert Long, of the city of Baltimore, or any three of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners
to review, and report to the next general assembly, the nearest and most convenient routs from the said town
of Cumberland to the said counties of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and to the North Western Territory, westward
of the Laurel Hill, accompanying the same with a plot or plots, with references by figures, and other explanations,
the nature of the ground, and courses and distances, also an estimate of the expence that may
be necessary to open, clear and complete the same; and in the execution of this resolution the said commissioners
are hereby required to be governed by a view to the promoting and advancing the interest of the state
of Maryland, and they are hereby also required and directed to report the place where, in their opinion, the
portage between the waters of the Patowmack and Monongahela ought to be fixed, and the distance, and the
probable expence in completing the same.
    RESOLVED, That the expence of the same be paid by an assessment of the people of Allegany county, to be
imposed and collected as other county charges.
The house adjourns till to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.

F    R    I    D    A    Y,    December 19, 1800.

    THE house met.  Present the same members as on yesterday.  The proceedings of yesterday were read.
    The report on the petition of Robert Long was read the second time, the resolution therein contained
assented to, and sent to the senate by the clerk.
    Petitions from Edward Hargadine, of Queen-Anne's county, and George Carnaghan, praying acts of insolvency,
were preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Smith, of Baltimore, Mr. C. Frazier and Mr. Lowrey, to consider
and report thereon.
    Mr. C. Frazier, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the petitions of Edward Hargadine, of Queen-Anne's county, and
George Carnaghan, of the city of Baltimore, beg leave to report, that they have taken the same into consideration,
and are of opinion that a law ought to pass agreeable to the prayer of the petitioners.
                                            By order,                                                        J. S.  BETTON, 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 petitions prepare and bring in the same.
    RESOLVED, That this house will hereafter receive no new business to be acted on during this session.
    Mr. C. Frazier, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An additional supplement to an
act, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors; which was read the first and second time by
especial order, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

 

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