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VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November Session, 1800.
that in all circumstances they should equally participate in the affairs
of government. Prudent legislatures
will adopt those provisions on that subject which are best calculated
to secure the freedom, safety and happiness
of society.
How far the constitutional provision, with respect to
the right of suffrage, adopted by every state in the union,
except one, may merit the name of error, or how far it may be consistent
with delicacy for one branch of the
legislature in a single state to brand it with that epithet, we submit
to your serious reflection. For ourselves we
must declare, that had the weight of example been as powerful against our
opinions, we should have been much
inclined to doubt their correctness.
Permit us to conclude, with correcting a misapprehension
you have taken up with respect to a part of our
message. We did not say that we meant not to exclude any person now
constitutionally entitled to suffrage.
Our assertion was, that you had exercised, in the first part of your bill,
the power of deprivation to an extent
beyond which we did not design to carry it. In this position we conceive
ourselves to have been correct, as er
are well assured there is not a citizen in the state possessing thirty
pounds worth of property, in the meaning of
our present constitution, who might not, under the operation of our amendments,
be admitted to the right of
suffrage.
By order,
W. S. GREEN, clk.
Which was read.
The engrossed bill No. 89, was read and assented to,
and sent to the senate, with the paper bill thereof, by
the clerk.
The following message being prepare, was read, agreed
to, and sent to the senate by the clerk.
BY the HOUSE of DELEGATES, December 19, 1800.
GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE,
WE accede to your proposal of proceeding immediately
to the signing and sealing of the laws, and we propose
to adjourn to the first Monday of October next.
By order,
W. HARWOOD, clk.
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, and John Campbell,
Esquires, from the senate, acquaint Mr. Speaker that the
governor is waiting in the senate to sign and seal the engrossed bills,
and request the attendance of this house
for that purpose.
Mr. Speaker left the chair, and, attended by the members
of this house, went to the senate, and there presented
the following engrossed bills to the governor, who signed the same, and
affixed the great seal thereto, in
the presence of both houses.
No. 1. An ACT to revive the levy
court for Baltimore county.
No. 2. An ACT to aid and revive
the proceedings of the orphans court of Talbot county.
No. 3. An ACT to revive and aid the proceedings
of the orphans court of Saint-Mary's county.
No. 4. An ACT to settle and ascertain the salary
of the members of the council for the ensuing year.
No. 5. An ACT to repeal an act, entitled, An act
for the more effectual preservation of the breed of wild deer in Somerset
and Dorchester counties, so far as it respects the county of Dorchester.
No. 6. An ACT declaring a road or street leading
from Riester's-town turnpike road to intersect Howard-street a public
highway.
No. 7. An ACT to extend the
powers of the trustees of the poor of Caroline county.
No. 8. An ACT, entitled, A further
supplement to the act passed at November session, seventeen hundred and
eighty-seven,
entitled, An act to lay out several turnpike roads in Baltimore county.
No. 9. An ACT to continue an act, entitled, An
act for the better administration of justice in the several counties of
this
state, and the several supplements thereto.
No. 10. An ACT to alter and
change the time for holding the county courts of Baltimore and Washington
counties.
No. 11. A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act
for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors.
No. 12. An ACT to resurvey and lay out anew Princess-Anne-town,
in Somerset county, and for other purposes.
No. 13. An ACT, entitled, A further supplement
to an act, entitled, An act for building a new gaol in Baltimore county.
No. 14. An ACT to incorporate
a presbyterian and lutheran church in the county of Baltimore.
No. 15. An ACT to incorporate the presbyterian
church in Snow Hill, in Worcester county.
No. 16. An ACT, entitled, An act to repeal an
act, entitled, An act for the more effectual preservation of the breed
of wild
deer in Somerset and Dorchester counties.
No. 17. An ACT to lay out a road from Christopher
Walker's mill, in Anne-Arundel county, to intersect the Frederick
turnpike road in Baltimore county at or near the seven mile stone in the
said turnpike road.
No. 18. An ACT authorising Cornelius Howard Gist,
late collector of Baltimore county, to complete his collections.
No. 19. An ACT to relinquish the right of this
state to the tract of land therein mentioned.
No. 20. An ACT to lay out and open a road from
Jesse Tomlinson's, on Bradock's old road, to Matthew Ball's, on
George's creek.
No. 21. An ACT for the preservation of the breed
of fish in Great Choptank river.
No. 22. A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act
respecting the public roads in Washington county.
No. 23. An ACT further supplementary
to the act, entitled, An act for the better administration of justice in
the several
counties of this state.
No. 24. An ACT for the relief of Thomas Beall,
of Samuel, of Allegany county.
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