The clerk of the house of delegates delivers to the clerk of the senate a bill, entitled, An act
to compel the attendance of the members of the general assembly, thus endorsed; " By the house
" of delegates, November 15, 1799:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                        " By order,                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, December 7, 1799:  Read the second time and will pass.
                                                        " By order,                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk."
Which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
    The clerk of the house of delegates delivers the engrossed bill No. 16, with the paper bill
thereof, which engrossed bill thus endorsed; " By the house of delegates, December 7, 1799:
Read and assented to.
                                                        " By order,                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk."
    The paper bill No. 16 was sent to the house of delegates by the clerk.
    His excellency the governor attending in the senate, ORDERED, That Mr. Carroll and Mr. 
Hammond wait on the house of delegates, and inform him that his excellency the governor is
attending in the senate room for the purpose of signing and sealing an engrossed bill, and request
their attendance.
    The speaker, attended by the members of the house of delegates, appeared in the senate, and
the following engrossed bill was presented by the speaker to his excellency the governor, who
signed and sealed the same in the presence of both houses.
    No. 16.  An act to incorporate a company for the purpose of cutting and making a canal between
the river Delaware and the Chesapeake Bay.
    The bill, entitled, An act for the relief of Tristram Dalton, of the city of Washington, was
read the second time by especial order and will pass.
    The bill, entitled, An act to pay the civil list, and other expences of civil government, was
read the second time and will pass.
    The bill, entitled, An act to compel the attendance of the members of the general assembly,
was read the second time by especial order and will pass with the proposed amendments.
    Amendments proposed.  In the second line from the bottom of the first page strike out the
word "four" and insert the word "three."  At the end of the bill add the following clause:
" This act to continue in force until the third Monday in September, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and one, and no longer."

    THE senate met.  Present the same members as on Saturday.  The proceedings of Saturday
were read.
    The bill, entitled, A supplement to act, entitled, An act for the opening of Second-street,
in the city of Baltimore, was read the second time and will pass with the proposed amendments.
    Amendments proposed.   In the twelfth line of the second page strike out the words " Jones's
Falls" and insert the words " to Frederick-street."  In the thirteenth line of the same page, after
the word "persons" insert the words " holding houses or lots on South-street."
    The clerk of the house of delegates delivers to the clerk of the senate a bill, entitled, An act
to regulate public ferries, thus endorsed; " By the house of delegates, December 6, 1799:  Read
" the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                        " By order,                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, December 9, 1799:  Read the second time and will pass.
                                                        " By order,                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, An act for appointing a wreck-master in Worcester county, thus endorsed;
" By the house of delegates, November 29, 1799:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the
" table.
                                                        " By order,                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, December 9, 1799:  Read the second time and will pass.
                                                        " By order,                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, An act to repeal part of an act, entitled, an act to open a road in Cæcil county
from Archibald Dysart's towards Hugh Ramsey's tavern, thus endorsed; " By the house of 
" delegates, December 9, 1799:  Read the first and second time by especial order and will pass.
                                                        " By order,                                    W.  HARWOOD, clk."
And also the following resolution: