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Proceedings of the House of Delegates, 1799
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VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November, 1799.            105

being so endorsed, the constable shall take the same, together with the defendant, and deliver
them to the sheriff of the county, whose duty it is hereby declared to be, and who is hereby
authorised, to detain such defendant in custody until the debt and cost be satisfied, or the defendant
be otherwise discharged by law."  The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

A    F    F    I    R    M    A    T    I    V    E.

Messieurs
Leigh,
Greenwell,
Wroth,
Harwood,		 Brogden,
Worthington,
Carcaud,
Brome,		 Parnham,
McPherson,
Hyland,
Stewart,		 S. Frazier,
Pattison,
Keene,
Duckett,		 Quynn,
Warfield,
Shriver,
Street,		 McComas,
Bond,
Cellar,		 Magruder,
Turner,
Swearingen.		  

26.
N    E    G    A    T    I    V    E.
Messieurs
Hall,
Taney,
Digges,
Brown,		 Cottman,
Haynes,
Wallace,
Rumsey,		 Key,
Wright,
C. Frazier,
Thompson,		 Lowrey,
Sappington,
Ayres,		 Mason,
Potter,
Orrell,		 Geoghegan,
McClain,
Riley,		 Perry,
Beall,
Rice.		  

24.
So it was resolved in the affirmative.
    ORDERED, That the further consideration of the said bill be postponed till the first day of August
next.
    The report on the petition of Robert Amos was read the second time, and the resolution
therein contained rejected.
    On motion, the question was put, That the further consideration of the bill to settle the rate
of interest to be allowed on open accounts, be referred to the next session of assembly?  Resolved
in the affirmative.
    The clerk of the senate delivers the resolution respecting the address of president George
Washington, endorsed; " By the senate, January 2, 1800:  Read the first time and ordered to lie
" on the table.
                                                    " By order,                                        A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, January 2, 1800:  Read the second time by especial order and assented to.
                                                    " By order,                                        A.  VAN-HORN, clk."
The bill for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, endorsed; " By the senate, January 2, 1800:
" Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                    " By order,                                        A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, January 2, 1800:  Read the second time by especial order and will pass with the
" proposed amendments.
                                                    " By order,                                        A.  VAN-HORN, clk."
    Which were read.
And the following message:
By the SENATE, January 2, 1800.
        GENTLEMEN,
    WE have passed the bill, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, with
certain amendments, to which we hope you will accede.
    The senate are of opinion, that if its provisions were extended to all persons who might think
proper to apply to the chancellor within three years, the most mischievous consequences would
ensue.  The facility with which acts of insolvency have already been obtained, has operated but
too powerfully in inducing habits of dissipation, extravagance, and idle speculation.  To increase
that facility must inevitably add to those evils so ruinous to the morals of our citizens, and so
destructive to public honour and individual confidence.
    The different descriptions of characters embraced in our insolvent laws have produced provisions
equally inconsistent with the principles that ought to pervade either a bankrupt or an insolvent
law, if the subjects were taken up separately.  A law framed under such circumstances
ought not surely to have continuance beyond that immediate necessity which induces its passage.
    The senate expect that a general bankrupt law will pass during the present session of congress.
If this takes place, it will remove from our view those applications which most deserve to engage
our feelings and attention; and when we are left to act solely upon insolvents, it is hoped by the
senate, that the legislature will organize a system more calculated to improve the morals of the
people, and to secure private rights, than what has prevailed for some years.
                                                    By order,                                          A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
Which was read.
    ORDERED, That Mr. Key, Mr. McPherson, Mr. Digges, Mr. Taney and Mr. Nabb, be a committee
to prepare an answer to the said message.
The house adjourns till to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.

F    R    I    D    A    Y,    January 3, 1800.

    THE house met.  Present the same members as on yesterday.  The proceedings of yesterday
were read.
    The bill respecting the free-school of Anne-Arundel county, was sent to the senate by the
clerk.
    The amendment to the bill relating to the public roads in Kent county was read the second
time, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.
    On motion, ORDERED, That the committee of claims close the journal of accounts this day,
including to-morrow.
    The amendments to the bill for appointing a wreck-master in Worcester county, were read the
second time, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.

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