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Mary's county, appeared, and after qualifying in the mode prescribed
by the constitution and
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:
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. 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
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