disabled, that he would be entitled to receive half pay from the time his whole pay should cease,
during his life; it further appears to the committee, that the petitioner applied to the legislature
at November session, 1791, and that a resolution did pass, directing the treasurer to pay to him
his half pay quarterly, from that time during his life, but that the said resolution did not direct
that any thing should be paid to him for or in lieu of his half pay, from the time his whole pay
ceased up to the time of passing the said resolution; and it appearing to the committee to be reasonable
and right that he should receive his half pay, according to the said act of assembly, passed
at October session, 1778, they beg leave to propose the following resolution, to wit:
    RESOLVED, That the auditor be and he is hereby authorised and directed to liquidate and adjust
the amount that would be due to William A. Needham, as a sergeant in the Maryland line
in the service of the United States, from the time his whole pay ceased up to the time his half
pay commenced, agreeably to the resolution that passed in his favour at November session, 1791,
and that the treasurer of the western shore be and he is hereby directed to pay the amount thereof
to the said William A. Needham, or his order.
                                                    By order,                                        L.  GASSAWAY, clk.
Which was read.
   Mr. Buchanan, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, A
supplement to the act, entitled, An act for opening of Second-street in the city of Baltimore;
which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
    Mr. McPherson, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker, a bill, entitled, An
act to regulate the inspection of tobacco; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the
table.

    THE house met.  Present the same members as on yesterday.  The proceedings of yesterday
were read.
    The report on the petition of Elizabeth Purdy 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. Hall, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to
empower the justices of the levy court of Anne-Arundel county to assess and levy a sum of money
for the purpose therein mentioned; which was read the first and second time by especial order,
passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.
    Mr. Warfield appeared in the house.
    The report on the petition of Mary Chandler was read the second time, and thereupon the following
resolution was propounded to the house, and read, viz.
    RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore be and he is hereby authorised and required
to pay unto Mary Chandler, adminstratrix of all and singular the goods and chattels of George
Chandler, late of the borough of Norfolk, in the state of Virginia, deceased, or order, the sum
of one hundred and forty-three pounds two shillings sterling money of Great-Britain, with interest
thereon from the first day of May, seventeen hundred and eighty, and also the further sum
of seventy-five pounds three shillings sterling money of Great-Britain, with interest thereon from
the first day of May, seventeen hundred and eighty, being sums of money due from this state to
the said Mary Chandler, on account of two bills of exchange drawn by Thomas Harwood, commissioner
of the state of Maryland, upon the trustees of the bank stock at London, under an act
of assembly, passed at November session, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, in favour of a certain
White Mattack, and by the said White Mattack endorsed to a certain George Chandler, to
whom the said Mary Chandler is administratrix.
    ORDERED, That the same have a second reading on Saturday next.
    A petition from Andrew Criswell, of Anne-Arundel county, praying the levy court of said
county may be authorised to levy a sum of money for his support, was preferred, read, and referred
to Mr. Brogden, Mr. Harwood and Mr. Hall, to consider and report thereon.
    The bill to settle and pay the civil list, and other expences of civil government, was read the
second time, agreeably to the order of the day, and the question put, That the said bill do pass?
The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow: