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VOTES and PROCEEDING, November, 1799.
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" By the senate, December 28, 1799: Read the second time and dissented
from.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk."
The resolution in favour of George Twilly, endorsed; " By the senate, December
28, 1799:
" Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 28, 1799: Read the second time by especial
order and assented to.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk."
And the bill to lay out and open a road in Cæcil county from
Archibald Dysart's towards Hugh
Ramsay's tavern, endorsed; " By the senate, December 26, 1799: Read
the first time and ordered
" to lie on the table.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 28, 1799: Read the second time and will
not pass.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk."
On the second reading of the bill to appoint an agent
for the year one thousand eight hundred,
the question was put, that the agent be allowed a commission of four per
cent. for all payments
actually made to either of the treasurers? The yeas and nays being
required, appeared as follow:
A F F I
R M A T
I V E.
Messieurs
Leigh,
Greenwell,
Tilghman,
Harwood, |
Worthington,
Brome,
Parnham,
Edmondson, |
Cottman,
Hyland,
Stewart,
S. Frazier, |
Rumsey,
Addison,
Marbury,
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Quynn,
Key,
Sappington,
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Warfield,
J. Thomas,
Potter,
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J. Buchanan,
Turner,
Perry.
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N E G A
T I V E.
Messieurs
Wroth,
Hall,
Brogden,
Carcaud,
Taney,
McPherson, |
Digges,
T. Worthington,
Brown,
Rose,
Nabb,
Denny, |
Keene,
Haynes,
Wallace,
Wright,
C. Frazier, |
Thompson,
Lowrey,
Shriver,
Street,
McComas, |
Ayres,
Bond,
Mason,
Orrell,
A. Buchanan, |
Johonnot,
Geoghegan,
McClain,
Cellar,
Magruder, |
Riley,
Swearingen,
Tomlinson,
Beall,
Rice. |
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So it was determined in the negative.
On progression in reading the said bill, the question
was put, That the following proviso be received
as an amendment to the said bill? " Provided, That the said agent
shall not be entitled to
any commission upon the monies arising from fines, forfeitures, amerciaments,
ordinary, retailers,
marriage, hawkers and pedlers licences, unless in cases where the same
shall not be paid by the
sheriffs and clerks respectively to the treasurer within one month after
the time prescribed by
law, and unless the said agent shall thereafter receive the same from the
said officers respectively,
and the same shall pay to the said treasurer." Resolved in the
affirmative.
On motion, the question was put, That the further consideration
of the said bill be postponed
until the next session of assembly? The yeas and nays being required,
appeared as follow:
A F F I
R M A T
I V E.
Messieurs
Leigh,
Greenwell,
Brome, |
Parnham,
Edmondson,
Nabb, |
Cottman,
S. Frazier,
Rumsey, |
Addison,
Quynn,
Key, |
Wright,
Warfield,
J. Thomas, |
Potter,
Orrell,
J. Buchanan, |
Turner,
Perry,
Sappington. |
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N E G A
T I V E.
Messieurs
Wroth,
Tilghman,
Harwood,
Hall,
Brogden,
Worthington, |
Carcaud,
Taney,
McPherson,
Digges,
T. Worthington,
Brown, |
Denny,
Hyland,
Stewart,
Keene,
Haynes,
Wallace, |
Duckett,
C. Frazier,
Thompson,
Lowrey,
Shriver,
Street, |
McComas,
Ayres,
Bond,
Mason,
A. Buchanan, |
Johonnot,
Geoghegan,
McClain,
Cellar,
Magruder, |
Riley,
Swearingen,
Tomlinson,
Beall,
Rice. |
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So it was determined in the negative.
On further progression in reading the said bill, the
question was put, That the following clause
be received as an amendment to the said bill? " And be it enacted,
That hereafter it shall be the
duty of the agent, and the treasurers of the eastern and western shores
respectively, to receive,
as well the fifteen per cent. interest, if any shall have accrued, as all
other the arrearages that
are now or may hereafter become due from fines, forfeitures and amerciaments,
ordinary, retailers,
marriage, hawkers and pedlers licences, and the fifteen per cent. so collected
shall be
the only fund from which the agent shall draw his commission on the same."
The yeas and nays
being required, appeared as follow:
A F F I
R M A T
I V E.
Messieurs
Hall,
Brogden,
Carcaud,
Taney, |
Digges,
T. Worthington,
Brown,
Haynes, |
Duckett,
Key,
Thompson,
Shriver, |
Street,
McComas,
Ayres,
Bond, |
Mason,
Orrell,
Johonnot,
Geoghegan, |
McClain,
Cellar,
Magruder,
Riley, |
Swearingen,
Tomlinson,
Beall,
Rice. |
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N E G A
T I V E.
Messieurs
Leigh,
Greenwell,
Wroth,
Tilghman, |
Harwood,
Worthington,
Brome,
McPherson, |
Nabb,
Denny,
Cottman,
Stewart, |
S. Frazier,
Keene,
Wallace,
Rumsey, |
Quynn,
Wright,
C. Frazier, |
Sappington,
Warfield,
A. Buchanan, |
J. Buchanan,
Turner,
Perry. |
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
The bill being read throughout, the question was put,
That the said bill do pass? Determined
in the negative.
A petition from sundry inhabitants of Frederick county,
praying an act may pass for laying out
a road leading from Emmitsburgh through the South mountain to intersect
the main road leading
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