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A bill, entitled, An act for the direction of surveyors in executing
warrants of escheat in certain cases, a bill, Kent county, was convicted of murder at a court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore county, at the court-house in said county, in July, eighteen hundred, and was sentenced to be hanged, which said sentence was commuted to banishment out of the United States, and that the said slave was valued by the said court to the sum of ninety pounds current money; RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore pay to the said James Hodges, or order, the sum of ninety pounds current money, the valuation of the said negro slave Simon. By order, W. HARWOOD, clk. Which were severally read the first time and ordered to lie on the table. The president communicates to the senate a letter from his excellency the governor of this day, with a letter from the president of the senate of the United States, notifying the resignation of James Lloyd, Esquire, of his seat as a senator from this state in the senate of the United States; which were read, referred to the consideration of the house of delegates, and sent by the clerk. Agreeably to the order of the day, the senate proceeded to the consideration of the resolution in favour of Rachel Shipley, and after examination of several witnesses, and the hearing of the parties by their counsel, on motion, ORDERED, that the further consideration thereof be postponed till Monday. M O N D A Y, December 8, 1800. THE senate met. Present the same members as
on Saturday. The proceedings of Saturday were read. IT having been notified to the legislature that James Lloyd, Esquire, has resigned his seat as senator for this state in the senate of the United States, we propose, with your concurrence, to proceed to supply the vacancy occasioned by his resignation at the time and in the manner proposed in our resolve herewith transmitted to you. By order, W. S. GREEN, clk. of the United States, who shall be a resident of the eastern shore, and that the person having a majority of votes of all the then attending members of both houses be declared to be duly elected to represent this state in the senate of the United States for the remainder of the term for which James Lloyd, Esquire, was elected, and that a commission issue to the said senator appointed as aforeisad, signed by the governor for the time being, or in his absence by the presiding member of the council, in the following words, to wit: To --------. The legislature of Maryland, reposing especial confidence in your integrity and abilities, hath appointed you senator to represent this state in the senate of the United Sates for the remainder of the term for which James Lloyd, Esquire, was elected, agreeably to the constitution of the United States. Given under my hand and the seal of this state, anno domini ----. By order, W. S. GREEN, clk. |
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