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Proceedings of the Senate, 1800
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VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November Session, 1800.            29

A    F    F    I    R    M    A    T    I    V    E.
John Thomas, Esquire, president, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, John Campbell, James Hollyday, John
Chesley, David McMechen, William Hindman, Charles Goldsborough, junior, William
Hemsley, junior, and Philip Thomas, Esquires.        10.
N    E    G    A    T    I    V    E.
John Grahame, Uriah Forrest and William Hammond Dorsey, Esquires.        3.
So it was determined in the affirmative.

    On progression in reading the said bill, the question was put, That the following be proposed as an amendment
thereto?  Strike out the second section, and insert, " And be it enacted, That no foreigner shall have a right of
suffrage without having been naturalized according to law, and that a duly authenticated certificate of naturalization,
under the hand and seal of office of the clerk of the court before which such foreigner was naturalized,
shall be the only competent evidence to prove the citizenship of a foreigner, who shall claim a right of suffrage
as a naturalized citizen, except in the case of those foreigners who were naturalized before the passage of the
law of the United States, passed on the twenty-ninth day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, entitled,
An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the act heretofore passed on that subject,
with respect to whom other satisfactory testimony may be admitted."  Determined in the affirmative.
    The bill being read throughout, the question was put, That the said bill do pass as amended?  The yeas and
nays being required, appeared as follow:
John Thomas, Esquire, president, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, John Campbell, Charles Ridgely, of Hampton,
James Hollyday, John Chesley, David McMechen, William Hindman, Charles Goldsborough, junior,
William Hemsley, junior, and Philip Thomas, Esquires.        11.
N    E    G    A    T    I    V    E.
John Grahame, Uriah Forrest and William Hammond Dorsey, Esquires.        3.
So it was determined in the affirmative.
    The clerk of the house of delegates delivers a bill, entitled, An act to enable the mayor and city council of
Baltimore to introduce water into the said city, endorsed; " By the house of delegates, November 20, 1800:
" Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, December 11, 1800:  Read the second time and will pass.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, An act to rebuild the poor-house in Anne-Arundel county, endorsed; " By the house of delegates,
" December 1, 1800:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, December 10, 1800:  Read the second time and will pass.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, An additional supplement to the act, entitled, An act for the opening of Second-street in the 
city of Baltimore, endorsed; " By the house of delegates, December 4, 1800:  Read the first time and ordered
" to lie on the table.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, December 11, 1800:  Read the second time and will pass.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, An act for the improvement of the public roads in Kent county, endorsed; " By the house of 
" delegates, December 6, 1800:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, December 11, 1800:  Read the second time and will pass.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, An act for incorporating the Methodist episcopal churches, known by the name of the Light-street
and Old-town Methodist Churches, in the City of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, endorsed; " By 
" the house of delegates, December 10, 1800:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, December 11, 1800:  Read the second time by especial order and will pass.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, An act to aid and amend defects in the records, papers and proceedings, in the register of wills
office of Harford county, endorsed; " By the house of delegates, December 11, 1800:  Read the first and second
" time by especial order and will pass.
                                                            " By order,                                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk."
The following resolutions:
By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, December 11, 1800.
    Whereas it hath been represented to this general assembly, that Francis Ware, (who heretofore commanded
the troops of this state, then the colony of Maryland, with distinguished bravery and fidelity, and who,
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