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VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November, 1796.
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" By the house of delegates, November 25, 1796: 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 house adjourns until to-morrow morning 10 o'clock.
S A T U
R D A Y,
November 26, 1796.
THE same members appeared as on yesterday, except
the honourable Charles Ridgely, of
Hampton, and William H. Dorsey, Esquires. A sufficient number
of members to compose
a senate not attending, the members present adjourn until Monday morning
10 o'clock.
M O N D
A Y, November 27, 1796.
THE same members appeared as on Saturday. The
honourable James Hollyday appeared in
the senate. A sufficient number of members to compose a senate not
attending, the members
present adjourn until to-morrow morning 10 o'clock.
T U E S
D A Y, November 28,
1796.
THE same members appeared as on yesterday.
A sufficient number of members to compose a
senate not attending, the members present adjourn until to-morrow morning
10 o'clock.
W E D N
E S D A
Y, November 29, 1796.
THE same members appeared as on yesterday.
The honourable William H. Dorsey, Esquire,
appeared in the senate. A sufficient number of members to compose
a senate being present,
the proceedings from Friday, November 25, to this day, were read.
The president communicates to the senate a letter
from his excellency the governor, addressed to
both branches of hte legislature, acknowledging the receipt of the answer
to his address; which was
read, and sent to the house of delegates by the clerk.
The memorial and petition of the proprietors of hte
Susquehanna canal, praying that the time for
completing hte same may be extended, that the number of shares may
be increased to fifty, and suggesting
the propriety of the state's taking the additional twenty shares, or
so many thereof as to the
said state may seem expedient, a resolution of the said proprietors,
and a map of the said river,
with an explanation thereof by Mr. Varlé, the engineer, was
read and referred to the consideration
of the house of delegates, and sent thither by the clerk.
The clerk of the house of delegates delivers to the
clerk of the senate the following bills, to
wit: A bill, entitled, An act to lay out certain roads, and authorising
certain public landings, in
Worcester county, thus endorsed; " By the house of delegates, November
23, 1796: Read the
" first time and ordered to lie on the table.
" By order,
W. HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, November 25, 1796: Read the second time
and will pass.
" By order,
W. HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, An act to repeal the thirty-third section of the act
therein mentioned, thus endorsed;
" By the house of delegates, November 22, 1796: Read the first time
and ordered to lie
" on the table.
" By order,
W. HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, November 26, 1796: Read the second time
and will pass.
" By order,
W. HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, An act to allow further time for collecting the balances
due to Thomas O'Bryon,
late sheriff and collector of Queen-Anne's county, deceased, thus endorsed;
" By the house of delegates,
" November 28, 1796: Read the first and second time by especial order
and will pass.
" By order,
W. HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, An act for the relief of Lucy Jennings, widow and devisee
of Richard Jennings,
late of Frederick county, deceased, thus endorsed; " By the house of delegates,
November 26,
" 1796: Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
" By order,
W. HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, November 29, 1796: Read the second time
and will pass.
" By order,
W. HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, An act declaring the right of personal liberty, and redressing
the injuries thereto,
thus endorsed; " By the house of delegates, November 15, 1796: Read
the first time and ordered
" to lie on the table.
" By order,
W. HARWOOD, clk.
" By the house of delegates, November 29, 1796: Read the second time
and will pass.
" By order,
W. HARWOOD, clk."
A bill, entitled, An act to empower the justices of the levy court of Charles
county to
assess and levy annually a sum of money for the purpose therein mentioned,
thus endorsed; " By
" the house of delegates, November 29, 1796: Read the first and second
time by especial order
" and will pass.
" By order,
W. HARWOOD, clk."
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