These resolutions to be of no effect, unless the said Robert Long shall notify to the said
sheriff that he will no longer support and maintain the said negro at the price heretofore allowed
to said Long for that purpose.
                                                        By order,                                  W.  HARWOOD, clk.
    Which bills and resolutions were severally read and ordered to lie on the table.
    The clerk of the house of delegates returns a bill, entitled, A supplement to the act, entitled,
An act for the more effectual collection of the county charges in Allegany county, thus
endorsed; " By the house of delegates, December 30, 1799:  Read the first time and ordered to
" lie on the table.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, December 31, 1799:  Read the second time by especial order and
" will pass.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk."
Ordered that the said bill be engrossed.
    The resolution respecting the laws of this state compiling by William Kilty was read the second
time by especial order and assented to.
    The resolution in favour of Darby McNamara was read the second time by especial order and
dissented from.
    The resolution in favour of the representatives of Elizabeth Atkinson was read the second
time by especial order and assented to.
    The bill, entitled, An act to authorise a sale of the real estate of the late John Rogers, id approved
of by the chancellor, was read the second time by especial order and will not pass.
    The bill, entitled, An act to lay out, alter and confirm, certain roads in Allegany county, was
read the second time by especial order and will pass.
    The bill, entitled, An act to repeal an act, entitled, An act to prevent the going at large of 
geese and swine in the town of Havre-de-Grace, in Harford county, passed at November session,
seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, was read the second time by especial order and will not pass.
    The bill, entitled, An act to change the name of Clement Holliday Waring to the name of
Clement Holliday, was read the second time by especial order and will pass.
    The bill, entitled, An act to authorise the register of the land-office to correct the patent
therein mentioned, was read the second time by especial order and will not pass.
    The resolution in favour of Richard J. Orme was read the second time by especial order and 
assented to.
    The resolution respecting negro Daniel was read the second time by especial order, assented to,
and, with the resolution in favour of Arthur Thompson and wife, and the four resolutions and
five bills next before mentioned, sent to the house of delegates by the clerk.

    THE senate met.  Present the same members as on yesterday.  The proceedings of yesterday
were read.
    The clerk of the house of delegates delivers to the clerk of the senate a bill, entitled, An act
for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, thus endorsed; " By the house of delegates, December
" 11, 1799:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, January 1, 1800:  Read the second time and will pass.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, An act to empower the levy court of Prince-George's county to lay off a road
in said county, and a bill, entitled, An act relating to certain public roads in Anne-Arundel
county, severally thus endorsed; " By the house of delegates, December 31, 1799:  Read the first
" time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, January 1, 1800:  Read the second time by especial order and will pass.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, An act to vest certain powers in the corporation of George-town, in Montgomery
county, thus endorsed; " By the house of delegates, December 31, 1799:  Read the first 
" time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, January 1, 1800:  Read the second time by especial order and
" will not pass.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk."
" By the house of delegates, January 2, 1800:  Upon reconsideration will pass.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, an act to make valid a certificate of land therein mentioned, thus endorsed;
" By the house of delegates, December 31, 1799:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the
" table.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, January 2, 1800:  Read the second time and will pass.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk."
The following resolutions: