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Proceedings of the House of Delegates, 1799
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VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November, 1799.            9

Mary's county, appeared, and after qualifying in the mode prescribed by the constitution and
form of government, and taking the oath to support the constitution of the United States, took
his seat in the house.
    The house took consideration the order of the day, respecting the election of delegates for
Washington county, and after hearing counsel at the bar of the house, on the second reading of
that part of the report  which relates to the said election, the question was put on the following,
to wit:  RESOLVED, That it does appear from the return of the sheriff of Washington county
that John Buchanan, Ambrose Geoghegan, James McClain and John Cellar, delegates returned
for Washington county as duly elected, are entitled to retain their seats in this house?  The yeas
and nays being required, appeared as follow:

A    F    F    I    R    M    A    T    I    V    E.
Messieurs 
 Love, Buchanan, Johonnot.
3.
N    E    G    A    T    I    V    E.
Messieurs
Leigh,
Greenwell,
Barber,
Neale,
Wroth,
Dunn,
Hall,
Brogden,
Worthington,		 Mackall,
Carcaud,
Taney,
Brome,
McPherson,
Brown,
Edmondson,
Rose,
Nabb,		 Denny,
Cottman,
Hyland,
Stewart,
Wilkins,
S. Frazier,
Pattison,
Keene,
Goldsborough,		 P. Thomas,
Haynes,
Wallace,
Addison,
Duckett,
Marbury,
Calvert,
Quynn,
Key,		 Wright,
C. Frazier,
Thompson,
Lowrey,
Purnell,
Gunby,
Franklin,
Sappington,
Warfield,		 J. Thomas,
Shriver,
Street,
McComas,
Ayres,
Bond,
Mason,
Orrell,
Boon,		 Magruder,
Riley,
Turner,
Swearingen,
Perry,
Tomlinson,
Beall,
Rice. 
 
 
 
 
 
62.
So it was determined in the negative.
    RESOLVED, That the late election for delegates for Washington county was held unconstitutionally,
and that the same is void.
    RESOLVED, That the speaker acquaint Ambrose Geoghegan, James McClain and John Cellar,
Esquires, that this house dispense with their further attendance.
    RESOLVED, That the speaker issue his warrant to the sheriff of Washington, to hold a new
election for four delegates to represent the said county, returnable on or before the fourth of
December next.
    On motion, the question was put, That on an election to any office of trust or profit, no ballot
shall be counted unless the person for whom the ballot shall be given be named to the house before
the balloting be gone into?  The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:
A    F    F    I    R    M    A    T    I    V    E.
Messieurs
Leigh,
Barber,
Neale,
Wroth,
Dunn,
Brogden,		 Worthington,
Carcaud,
Taney,
Brome,
McPherson,
Edmondson,		 Rose,
Denny,
Cottman,
Hyland,
Stewart,
Wilkins,		 S. Frazier,
Pattison,
Keene,
Goldsborough,
P. Thomas,
Haynes,		 Wallace,
Addison,
Marbury,
Calvert,
Quynn,
Key,		 Wright,
Purnell,
Gunby,
Franklin,
Sappington, 
Warfield,		 J. Thomas,
Shriver,
Mason,
Buchanan,
Turner,
Swearingen.
 
 
 
42.
N    E    G    A    T    I    V    E.
Messieurs
Hall,
Mackall,
Lemmon,
Brown,		 Love,
Nabb,
Duckett,
C. Frazier,		 Thompson,
Lowrey,
Street,		 McComas,
Ayres,
Bond,		 Orrell,
Boon,
Johonnot,		 Magruder,
Riley,
Perry,		 Tomlinson,
Beall,
Rice. 
23.
So it was resolved in the affirmative.
    Mr. Magruder, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the petition of sundry inhabitants of Montgomery
county, beg leave to report, that they have taken the same into consideration, and are of opinion
that the prayer thereof is reasonable, and ought to be granted.
                                                        By order,                                        J. F.  HARRIS, clk.
Which was read.
    Mr. Magruder, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the petition of William Willcoxon and William Taylor,
of Montgomery county, beg leave to report, that they have examined the facts therein contained,
and are of opinion that the prayer thereof is reasonable, and ought to be granted.
                                                        By order,                                        J. F.  HARRIS, clk.
Which was read.
    Petitions from James Mewburn, of Prince-George's county, John Jenings, junior, and John
Young Daley, Christian Krause, James Hutton and John Colston, Job Garretson, senior, and
Robert Kent, of the city of Baltimore, James Wilson, junior, of Talbot county, and John N.
Lovejoys, of Montgomery county, praying acts of insolvency, were preferred, read, and referred
to the committee appointed on petitions of a similar nature.
    A petition from Robert Elliott, of Talbot county, an alien, praying the state to relinquish her
right to certain lots of land purchased by him from a certain James Darach, of the city of Philadelphia,
was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Taney, Mr. Edmondson and Mr. Hyland, to
consider and report thereon.
The house adjourns till to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.

W    E    D    N    E    S    D    A    Y,    November 13, 1799.

    THE house met.  Present the same members as on yesterday.  The proceedings of yesterday
were read.  Mr. John Rumsey, a delegate returned for Cæcil county, appeared, and after
qualifying in the mode prescribed by the constitution and form of government, and taking the
oath to support the constitution of the United States, took his seat in the house.

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