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Proceedings of the Senate, 1799
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8            VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November, 1799.

" By the house of delegates, November 26, 1799:  Read the second time and will pass.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, An act for the benefit of Joseph Bouze, of Worcester county, thus endorsed;
" By the house of delegates, November 26, 1799:  Read the first and second time by especial
" order and will pass.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk."
And also the following resolution:

By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, November 26, 1799.
    RESOLVED, That John Callahan, register of the land-office of the western shore, be and he is
hereby authorised and required to compare the record BC and GS, No. 51, with the original
certificates, and to correct them where necessary.
                                                        By order,                                  W.  HARWOOD, clk.
Which said bills and resolution were read and ordered to lie on the table.
    The following message was prepared, read, and agreed to.
By the SENATE, November 26, 1799.
        GENTLEMEN,
    WE have duly considered your message of the twenty-third instant, proposing a conference
upon sundry communications from the executive.
    The senate are of opinion that the claim of Henry Harford is the only subject upon which a
conference ought to take place; in that case they adopt it as the most eligible and expeditious
mode of obtaining the necessary information.
    Upon the other subjects they decline at present any conference.
    We have appointed Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, John Campbell and William Hammond
Dorsey, Esquires, conferrees, to meet any gentlemen you may name to confer upon such part of
the communications as relate to the claim of Henry Harford.
                                                        By order,                                  A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
    The bill, entitled, An act to correct a mistake in an act, entitled, An act for the relief of Andrew
Buchanan, and to confirm all proceedings had, or hereafter to be had, under said act and a
certain deed of trust therein referred to, was read the second time by especial order and will pass.
    Mr. Forrest has leave of absence will Monday week next.
The senate adjourns until to-morrow morning 10 o'clock.

W    E    D    N    E    S    D    A    Y,    November 27, 1799.

    THE senate met.  Present the same members as on yesterday, except Mr. Forrest, who had
leave of absence.  The proceedings of yesterday were read.
    The bill, entitled, An act to revive the proceedings of the orphans court of Harford county,
the bill, entitled, An act to correct a mistake in the act, entitled, An act for the relief of Andrew
Buchanan, and to confirm all proceedings had, or hereafter to be had, under said act and a certain
deed of trust therein referred to, and the answer to the message from the house of delegates
respecting communications from the executive, were sent to the house of delegates by the clerk.

The house adjourns until to-morrow morning 10 o'clock.

T    H    U    R    S    D    A    Y,    November 28, 1799.

    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 Robert Elliott, of Talbot county, thus endorsed; " By the house of delegates,
" November 22, 1799:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, November 26, 1799:  Read the second time and will pass.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, A supplement to an act, entitled, An act relating to the public roads in Caroline
county, thus endorsed; " By the house of delegates, November 26, 1799:  Read the first
" time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, November 28, 1799:  Read the second time and will pass.
                                                        " By order,                                W.  HARWOOD, clk."
And the following message:

By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, November 27, 1799.
        GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE,
    THE claim of Henry Harford against this state, upon which you propose a conference, is certainly
an object of great magnitude, but we deem it only of secondary importance compared to 
the other subjects mentioned in our message.
    The communications from the executive of Pennsylvania respecting the Susquehanna navigation,
and the canal from the Chesapeake to the Delaware, and the situation of our bank stock in
England, appeared to us in a peculiar degree to demand a conference, that the joint information
of the two houses might be freely interchanged.  We adopted it from a conviction that the measure
might produce salutary effects, might tend to unanimity in our deliberations, and thereby
 

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