Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, and John Campbell, Esquires, from the senate, acquaint the
speaker that the senate request his attendance, with the members of the house of delegates, in
the senate room, to see the governor qualified.
    The speaker left the chair, and, attended by the members of this house, went to the senate
room, and saw his excellency qualify in the presence of both houses, by subscribing the declaration,
taking the several oaths required by the constitution and form of government, the oath of
office directed to be taken by act of assembly, and the oath to support the constitution of the
United States.
    The house having qualified agreeably to the constitution and form of government, proceeded to
the choice of a council to the governor, and the ballots being deposited in the ballot box, the
gentlemen named to strike retired, and after some time returned and reported, that Thomas
Buchanan, Arthur Shaaff, Jonathan R. Wilmer, James Thomas and John Davidson, Esquires, 
had a majority of votes.
    Whereupon RESOLVED, That Thomas Buchanan, Arthur Shaaff, Jonathan R. Wilmer, James
Thomas and John Davidson, Esquires, be, and they are hereby declared to be, the council to
the governor.
    Mr. P. Thomas and Mr. Warfield have leave of absence for one week.

    THE house met.  Present the same members as on yesterday, except Mr. P. Thomas and Mr.
Warfield.  The proceedings of yesterday were read.  Mr. Mackall has leave of absence
till Sunday next.
    The speaker laid before the house a report from the auditor-general, viz.
    No. 1, the western shore treasurer's account, as charged on the auditor's books, from the first
of November 1798, to the first of November, 1799.
    No. 2, is an estimate of the state debts, made up to the first of November 1799, by which
there appears a balance of ninety-five thousand eight hundred and eighty-three pounds fourteen
shillings and eleven-pence three farthings current money, and also the further sum of seven hundred
and seventy thousand five hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-two cents in stock
if the United States, in favour of the state of Maryland.  He has the honour to be, Gentlemen,
your obedient humble servant,
                                                                                            ROBt. DENNY, Aud. Gen.
Which was read.
    ORDERED, That Mr. Lowrey, Mr. Brogden, Mr. Key, Mr. Wallace and Mr. Leigh, be a
committee to consider and report thereon.
    Petitions from William Sharp, of Talbot county, Greenbury Neale, Lewis Bernard, of the
city of Baltimore, Edward Bouller, of Prince-George's county, James Osborn, of Harford county,
John Kelly, Evan Belt, of Montgomery county, Dennis Griffith, of Anne-Arundel county,
praying acts of insolvency, were preferred, read, and referred to the committee appointed on
petitions of a similar nature.
    Mr. John Parnham, a delegate returned for Charles county, appeared, and after qualifying in
the mode prescribed by the constitution and form of government, and taking the oath to support
the constitution of the United States, took his seat in the house.
    Whereas it is represented to this general assembly, that negro Tom, the slave of Joshua Dorsey,
senior, of Anne-Arundel county, was sentenced to suffer death by the judgment of the court
of Frederick county, and the said sentence has been commuted into banishment out of the United
States, and the said negro slave Tom was valued by said court to the sum of ninety pounds current
money:  And whereas the said Joshua Dorsey had conveyed said negro to his three children,
Henry Hall Dorsey, Isaac Dorsey and Elizabeth Dorsey, as appears in proof to this house, and
to whom, of right, the said sum of money belongs; therefore RESOLVED, That the treasurer
of the western shore pay to the said Henry Hall Dorsey, Isaac Dorsey and Elizabeth Dorsey, or
their order, the aforesaid sum of ninety pounds, the valuation of the said negro slave Tom.
    Sent to the senate by the clerk.
    The order of the day respecting the election of delegates for Baltimore county is postponed
till to-morrow morning.
    ORDERED, That attachment issue against Beale Owings, of Richard, who has been regularly
summoned, if he do not appear at or before three o'clock.
    The bill to settle and ascertain the salary of the members of the council for the ensuing year,
the bill to empower the levy court of Dorchester county to appoint a constable for the town of
Cambridge, the bill to empower the levy court of Dorchester county to assess and levy annually
a sum of money for the support of Esther Kenner, the supplement to the act, entitled, An act relating
to the public roads in Somerset county, the bill to empower the justices of the levy court of
Charles county to assess and levy annually a sum of money for the purpose therein mentioned, and
the bill to authorise and empower the levy court of Dorchester county to assess and levy annually
a sum of money for the support of Philemon Brooke, were sent to the senate by the clerk.