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VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November, 1799.
And the bill to regulate public ferries, endorsed; " By the senate,
December 9, 1799: Read the
" first time and ordered to lie on the table.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 25, 1799: Read the second time and will
pass with the proposed
" amendments.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk."
Which were read.
The house adjourns till to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.
F R I D
A Y, December 27, 1799.
THE house met. Present the same members as
on yesterday. The proceedings of yesterday
were read.
The resolution in favour of Gabriel Duvall, and others,
was sent to the senate by the clerk.
On motion, ORDERED, that the committee appointed on
the petition of William Hammond,
and others, securities of Dennis Griffith, be discharged, and that the
said petition be referred to
Mr. Carroll, Mr. J. T. Worthington, Mr. Key, Mr. Harwood and Mr. Quynn,
to consider and
report thereon.
The bill to incorporate the Roman Catholic congregation
in Cob Neck, in Charles county, was
read the second time, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.
On motion, ORDERED, That the printer to the state strike
one thousand copies, in octavo
pamphlets, of the 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, also of
the act, entitled, An
act 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, and also
an act, entitled, An
act to regulate elections.
Mr. P. Thomas has leave of absence.
The clerk of the senate delivers the bill to aid and
revive the proceedings of the court of appeals,
endorsed; " By the senate, December 24, 1799: Read the first time
and ordered to lie
" on the table.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 26, 1799: Read the second time and will
pass with the proposed
" amendments.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk."
Which were read the first and second time, the first
and second agreed to, and the last rejected.
A bill, entitled, An act to enlarge the powers of the trustees of the
poor in the several counties
therein designated, endorsed; " By the senate, December 24, 1799:
Read the first time and ordered
" to lie on the table.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 26, 1799: Read the second time and will
pass.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk."
Which was read the first time and ordered to lie on
the table.
And the following message:
By the SENATE, December 26, 1799.
GENTLEMEN,
THE senate having acted upon the principal part of the
business before them, and being conscious
that you feel an equal solicitude with us to close the session as soon
as it can be conveniently
done, propose to rise on Monday next.
We flatter ourselves that this proposition will not
only be agreeable to you, but will be justified
by a fair presumption that the business before the legislature may be conveniently
finished by that
time.
By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk.
Which was read.
ORDERED, That Mr. Key, Mr. Turner and Mr. Digges, be
a committee to prepare an answer
to the said message.
On motion, Leave given to bring in an additional supplement
to an act, entitled, An act relating
to negroes, and to repeal the acts of assembly therein mentioned.
ORDERED, That Mr.
Duckett, Mr. Digges and Mr. Addison, be a committee to prepare and bring
in the same.
Mr. Thompson, from the committee, delivers to the speaker
a bill, entitled, An act to lay out
and open a public road in the upper part of Queen-Anne's county; which
was read the first time
and ordered to lie on the table.
On motion, the question was put, That the resolution
respecting the state's becoming a subscriber
to, and stockholder in, the Bank of Baltimore, be referred until the
first day of June next?
The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:
A F F I
R M A T
I V E.
Messieurs
Leigh,
Greenwell,
Wroth,
Tilghman,
Harwood, |
Hall,
Brogden,
Worthington,
Brome,
Parnham, |
Digges,
P. Thomas,
Haynes,
Rumsey,
Addison, |
Duckett,
Marbury,
Calvert,
Quynn,
Key, |
Sappington,
J. Thomas,
Geoghegan,
McClain,
Cellar, |
Magruder,
Riley,
Turner,
Swearingen, |
Perry,
Tomlinson,
Beall,
Rice. |
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