THE house met.  Present the same members as on Saturday.  The proceedings of Saturday
were read.
    Mr. Buchanan, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An
act to incorporate a society for the maintenance and education of poor female children, by the
name of the Benevolent Society of the City and County of Baltimore; which was read the first
time and ordered to lie on the table.
    On motion, ORDERED, That Mr. Turner and Mr. Lowrey be added to the committee appointed
to bring in a bill to prevent the use of bills of privilege and attachments of privilege in this state.
    A petition from John Campbell, of Somerset county, an alien, praying the state to relinquish
her right to a certain real property, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Hyland, Mr. Gunby
and Mr. Parnham, to consider and report thereon.
    The bill for laying out two roads to Exeter mills, in Caroline county, was read the second
time, and passed.
    The report on the petition of Eliphaz Douglass, was read the second time, and the resolution
therein contained rejected.
    A petition from James Roney, of Somerset county, praying an act of insolvency, was preferred, 
read, and referred to Mr. Hyland, Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Taney, to consider and report
thereon.
    A petition from Upton Scott, of the city of Annapolis, was preferred, read, and referred to
Mr. Key, Mr. Turner and Mr. Buchanan, to consider and report thereon.
    Mr. Turner, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act
to prevent assignees from suing by bill of privilege or attachment of privilege; which was read
the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
    The report on the petition of Thomas Berry and William Reed was read the second time and
committed for amendment.
    On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill to repeal part of an act, entitled, An act to open a
road in Cæcil county from Archibald Dysart's towards Hugh Ramsay's tavern.  ORDERED, That
Mr. Rumsey, Mr. Wallace and Mr. P. Thomas, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.
    Mr Edmondson, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the petitions of Abner Parrott and Tristram Martin,
two of the securities of Daniel Powell Cox, former sheriff of Talbot county, report, that they
have taken the same into consideration, and find, that at September term, 1799, judgments in
the general court of the eastern shore were obtained against them to the amount of £. 73 18 2,
as securities of said Cox, including an interest of fifteen per cent.
    RESOLVED, That Tristram Martin and Abner Parrott, two of the securities of Daniel Powel
Cox, former sheriff of Talbot county, be and they are hereby allowed to make payment of the
principal sum due by them to this state, on judgment obtained in the general court of the eastern
shore at September term, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, for the sum of seventy-three pounds
eighteen shillings and two-pence against them as securities aforesaid, with six per cent. interest
thereon, on or before the first day of May next, and that execution be stayed until the first day
of May aforesaid; and that if the said Tristram Martin and Abner Parrott pay the principal
sum; and six per cent. interest thereon as aforesaid, together with all costs and commissions, on
the said first day of May, then to be released from the payment of fifteen per cent. interest imposed
by law for non-payment.
                                                        By order,                                    L.  GASSAWAY, clk.
Which was read.
    Mr. Barroll, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the petition of Philip Reed, of Kent county, have attentively
considered the same, and are of opinion that the facts therein are truly stated; they
think he is not legally entitled to the relief prayed for as to the £. 13 1 8, the first item exhibited
in his account, with interest of £. 6 5 6 thereon, but that under the peculiar circumstances 
surrounding the collection of the sf6 tax in Kent county for the year 1791, the legislature would
be justified in directing the same to be paid to him.  Your committee think that the said Philip
Reed is fully entitled to the sum of £. 15 18 3, with interest £. 7 12 8 thereon, and the further