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A F F I R M A T I V E.
The clerk of the senate delivers the supplement to an act, entitled, An act relating to the public roads in Caroline county, endorsed; " By the senate, November 28, 1799: Read the first " time and ordered to lie on the table. " By order, A. VAN-HORN, clk. " By the senate, December 7, 1799: Read the second time and will not pass. " By order, A. VAN-HORN, clk." A bill, entitled, An act respecting the sheriff of Talbot county, endorsed; " By the senate, December " 7, 1799: Read the first and second time by especial order and will pass. " By order, A. VAN-HORN, clk." Which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table. A memorial from William Kilty, relative to the revision of the laws of Maryland, endorsed; " By " the senate, December 7, 1799: Read and referred to the consideration of the house of delegates. " By order, A. VAN-HORN, clk." Which was read and referred to the committee appointed on the representation of Frederick Green. And the following message: AS you seem desirous to know the reasons which have induced this house to decline a conference on the several matters mentioned in your message of the twenty-third of last month, except the claim of Henry Harford, we will concisely state them. We only know by information from the executive, that henry Harford has preferred a large claim against the state to the board of commissioners, of the extent of which, and of the principles on which it is grounded, we are ignorant. We have understood that a state of the case has been submitted to the attorney-general for his opinion, and judging that it might save time to have the attorney-general before the conferees; to impart to them what information he may be able to give, we therefore acceded to your proposal of conferring on that subject. The legislature is already possessed of all the information at present obtainable on the bank stock, for if the agent has received any extracts of letters from Mr. King, through the secretary of state, of a posterior date to the seventh of December last, no doubt he would, as in duty bound, have transmitted such extracts to the executive. Mr. King, in his letter of the seventh of December last, says, " that under present circumstances he does not think it would be adviseable that the state should take any new or farther steps respecting the bank stock," we presume he had valid reasons for suggesting this advice, and if it be improper at this time to take any new or farther steps respecting that stock, to what purpose shall we confer about it; as no utility in our judgments can result from a conference on this case, we did decline, and do still decline it. By order, A. VAN-HORN, clk. Which was read. Mr. Hall, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker the following report: THE committee to whom was referred the memorial of Patrick Macgill, of Anne-Arundel county, report, that by a statement laid before them, they find the original costs of the warehouse amounted to the sum if sixteen hundred pounds, that the amount of the rent on the tobacco carried to the said warehouse during the present year amounted only to the sum of forty-four pounds eight shillings; as this sum is not adequate to the interest on said property, your committee are therefore of opinion that the warehouse rent ought to be increased from three shillings to seven shillings and six-pence per hogshead, and that leave ought to be given to bring in a bill for that purpose. By order, R. K. WATTS, clk. Which was read. Mr. Parnham, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker the following report: THE committee to whom was referred the petition of Allaire Creuse, report, that they believe the facts set forth in said petition to be true, and are of opinion that relief ought to be granted to the petitioner by including her case within the provisions of a bill, which a committee of this house heretofore appointed are directed to bring in for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors. By order, R. K. WATTS, clk. Which was read. Mr. Wilkins, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to repeal an act, entitled, An act respecting certificates of surveys made on the eastern shore, and for other purposes; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table. ORDERED, That the same have a second reading on Monday the 16th instant. |
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Proceedings of the House of Delegates, 1799
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