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

    A memorial from Patrick Magill, of Anne-Arundel county, stating, that he is proprietor of
the inspection warehouses at Elk-ridge Landing, that the rent he receives at present in inadequate
to the use of his property, and praying the rent may be increased, was preferred, read, and referred
to Mr. Brogden, Mr. Harwood and Mr. Hall, to consider and report thereon.
    A petition from Charles Gassaway, of Montgomery county, praying an act may pass to make
an alteration in the road leading from Montgomery court-house to the mouth of Monocacy, was
preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Magruder, Mr. Turner and Mr. Swearingen, to consider
and report thereon.
    The report on the petitions of Tristram Dalton and Thomas Hewitt, 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.
    Mr. Goldsborough, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker the bill to lay off
and open a certain public road in Talbot county, as amended; which was read the first time and
ordered to lie on the table.
    On the second reading of the said bill by especial order, the question was put, That the word
"eight" in the second enacting clause of the said bill be struck out?  Resolved in the affirmative.
    The question was then put, That the words " or of any ------of them who may agree," in the
same clause of the said bill, be struck out?  The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

A    F    F    I    R    M    A    T    I    V    E.
Messieurs
Greenwell,
Neale,
Barroll,
Tilghman,
Harwood,		 Hall,
Carcaud,
Digges,
Edmondson,
Rose,		 Nabb,
Cottman,
Stewart,
Addison,
Duckett,		 Marbury,
Quynn,
Thompson,
Lowrey,
Purnell,		 Franklin,
J. Thomas,
Shriver,
Street,
McComas,		 Mason,
Potter,
Orrell,
Magruder,
Riley,		 Turner,
Tomlinson,
Beall,
Rice.
 
34.
N    E    G    A    T    I    V    E.
Messieurs
Leigh,
Brogden,
Worthington,		 Taney,
Brome,
Parnham,		 McPherson,
Hyland,
Wilkins,		 S. Frazier,
Pattison,
Keene,		 Goldsborough,
Haynes,
Wallace,		 Rumsey,
Calvert,
Gunby,		 Corbin,
Sappington,
Buchanan.		  

21.
So it was resolved in the affirmative.
    ORDERED, That the further consideration of the said bill be postponed.
    Mr. Buchanan, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the petition of William Goodwin, Robert Dorsey and
Elizabeth Dorsey, of the city of Baltimore, report, that they believe the facts set forth in the said
petition to be true, and recommend to the house the passing of the following resolution, to wit:
    RESOLVED, That the chancellor be and he is hereby authorised to inquire into the facts stated
in the petition of William Goodwin, Robert Dorsey and Elizabeth Dorsey, and if they
are established to the satisfaction of the said chancellor, that he be authorised to direct a copy of
the said certificate, taken from the books of Lock Weems, formerly surveyor of Anne-Arundel 
county, to be received in the western shore land-office, and a patent thereon to issue, to secure
the legal title to the said lands according to the interests of the respective petitioners, provided,
that such patent shall not be construed to affect the rights or interests of any other persons or persons
having claim to the said land.
                                                        By order,                                L.  GASSAWAY, clk.
Which was read the first and second time, and the resolution therein contained assented to.
    On motion, ORDERED, That the bill to incorporate the benevolent society in the city of Baltimore,
be withdrawn.
    On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill to incorporate a company for the purpose of cutting
and making a canal between the river Delaware and the Chesapeake bay.  ORDERED, That Mr.
Tilghman, Mr. Edmondson, Mr. Taney, Mr. Key and Mr. C. Frazier, be a committee to prepare
and bring in the same.
    Mr. Tilghman, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An
act to incorporate a company for the purpose of cutting and making a canal between the river
Delaware and the Chesapeake bay; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
    ORDERED, That the said bill have a second reading on Friday the sixth of December next.
    The clerk of the senate delivers the following message:
By the SENATE, November 26, 1799.
        GENTLEMEN,
    WE have duly considered your message of the twenty-third instant, proposing a conference
upon sundry communications from the executive.
    The senate are of opinion that the claim of Henry Harford is the only subject upon which a
conference ought to take place; in that case they adopt it as the most eligible and expeditious
mode of obtaining the necessary information.
    Upon the other subjects they decline at present any conference.
    We have appointed Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, John Campbell and William Hammond
Dorsey, Esquires, conferrees, to meet any gentlemen you may name to confer upon such part of
the communications as relate to the claim of Henry Harford.
                                                        By order,                                    A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
Which was read.
    ORDERED, That Mr. Duckett, Mr. Taney, Mr. Key, Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Digges, be a 
committee to prepare an answer to the said message.
    The bill to revive the proceedings of the orphans court of Harford county, endorsed; " By 
" the senate, November 21, 1799:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                        " By order,                                  A.  VAN-HORN, clk.

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