The speaker laid before the house a report from the president and trustees of Charlotte-Hall
school; which was read.
    ORDERED, That Mr. Parnham, Mr. Taney, Mr. Turner, Mr. Digges and Mr. McPherson,
be a committee to consider and report thereon.
    Mr. Perry, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the petition of sundry inhabitants of Allegany county,
praying an act for laying out a road from the Morgan-town road, on the ridge between Asa
Beall's and William Coddington's, to the Virginia line, near to the lands of John Forrest, report,
that they have considered the same, and are of opinion the prayer thereof ought to be
granted.
                                            By order,                                    L.  GASSAWAY, clk.
Which was read.
    Mr. Turner, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act
to prevent the going at large of swine and poultry in the town of New-Market, in Frederick
county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
    On motion, ORDERED, That the governor and visitors of Saint-John's college lay before the
house, on or before the tenth day of December next, an account of the expenditure of the sum
granted as a donation to said college during the last and present years, together with the vouchers
necessary to establish the same.
    Mr. Turner, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the petition of William D. Beall, of Montgomery
county, report, that they have taken the same into consideration, and are of opinion, that under
the particular circumstances of his case, a special act ought to pass to release him from his debts.
                                            By order,                                      L.  GASSAWAY, clk.
    Which was read the first and second time, concurred with, and leave given to bring in a bill
pursuant thereto.  ORDERED, That the committee appointed on the said petition prepare and
bring in the same.
    Mr. Stewart, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act
for the more effectual preservation of wild deer in Somerset and Dorchester counties;
which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
    The bill to revive and aid the proceedings of the orphans court of Calvert county, and to
enable the register to adjourn the same, was read the second time, passes, and sent to the senate
by the clerk.
    On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill to empower notaries public to appoint a deputy or
deputies in the cases therein mentioned.  ORDERED, That Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Johonnot and 
Mr. Duckett, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.
    A petition from Rezin Davidge, praying an act of insolvency, was preferred, read, and referred 
to Mr. Key, Mr. Quynn and Mr. Brome, to consider and report thereon.
    The report on the petition of sundry inhabitants of Montgomery county was read the second
time, concurred with, and leave given to bring in a bill pursuant thereto.  ORDERED, That the
committee appointed on the said petition prepare and bring in the same.
    On motion, ORDERED, That the visitors and governors of Washington college lay before the
house, on or before the 15th day of December next, an account of the expenditure of the sum
granted as a donation to said college for the present year, together with the vouchers necessary
to establish the same.
    On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill to confirm an act, entitled, An act to alter, abolish
and repeal, certain parts of the constitution and form of government of this state as are therein
mentioned.  ORDERED, That Mr. Duckett, Mr. J. Thomas, Mr. Mason, Mr. Goldsborough and
Mr. Turner, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.
    Mr. Hall, from the committee of claims, brings in and delivers to the speaker the following
report:
    THE committee of claims, to whom was referred the petition of John Welch, sheriff of
Anne-Arundel county, report, that they have had the same under their consideration, and find,
by a statement laid before them, that he has expended the sum of sixteen pounds fifteen shillings
more than what is allowed by an act of assembly, entitled, An act for the speedy conveyance of
public letters and packets; they therefore submit to the house the propriety of allowing him the
same.
                                                        By order,                                    S.  MAYNARD, clk.
Which was read.
    Whereas it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of James Weems, that on
the seventeenth day of May, seventeen hundred and eighty-two, a certificate issued, in the name 
of Thomas Gray, for two hundred and thirty-three pounds sixteen shillings and six-pence, which
certificate was for the use of said James Weems:  And whereas it further appears, that the said
certificate has been lost or mislaid by said Weems, and hath never been cancelled or redeemed;
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore be and he is hereby directed to pay to James
Weems, or order, the sum of two hundred and thirty-three pounds sixteen shillings and six-pence
currency, with interest on the same from the seventeenth day of May, seventeen hundred and
eighty-two; provided that the said sum shall not be paid to the said Weems, or his order, until
the said Weems, or some other person on his behalf, shall give bond to the state of Maryland,
with sufficient security, to be approved by the treasurer of the western shore, conditioned to refund
the aforesaid sum of two hundred and thirty-three pounds sixteen shillings and six-pence,