|
52
VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November, 1796.
" By the senate, December 5, 1796: Read the second time and will
pass.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk."
Ordered to be engrossed.
The bill for the relief of Anne Dent and Theodore Dent, administrators
of Peter Dent, late of
Charles county, deceased, endorsed; " By the senate, November 18, 1796:
Read the first time
" and ordered to lie on the table.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 3, 1796: Read the second time and will
pass with the proposed amendments.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk."
Amendments proposed. In the 6th line of the first
page, after the word "warehouse" insert
" for the purpose of defence." In the 7th line of the same page strike
out the words " there for the
purpose of defence." In the 13th line of the same page, after the
word "thus" strike out to the
end of the preamble, and insert the word "incurred."
And the bill erecting a new bridge over Dividing creek, between the counties
of Somerset and
Worcester, endorsed; " By the senate, November 21, 1796: Read the first
time and ordered to lie
" on the table.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 5, 1796: Read the second time and will
pass with the proposed amendments.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk."
Amendments proposed. In the 1st line of the preamble
strike out the words " and causeways
leading." In the 2d line of the preamble strike out the word "are" and
insert "is." In the 8th
line of the 1st page strike out from the word "chapel" to the second "and"
in the 10th line of the
same page. In the 16th line of the second page, after the word "his"
insert "heirs." Same line,
after the word "executors" strike out "heirs." In the 18th line of
the 2d page, after the word
"commissioner" insert " or commissioners." At the beginning of the
lsat line of the second page
insert the words " his or." In the 3d line of the 3d page strike
out the letter "s" at the end
of the word "purposes." In the 4th line of the same page strike out
the words " and causeways."
In the 8th line of the same page, after the word "uses" insert "and."
In the 9th line of
the same page strike out the words " entitled to demand the same, or either
of them," and insert
"respectively." In the 3d line of the 4th page, after the word "person"
insert " or persons." In
the 4th line of the same page strike out the word "lived" and insert "
resided, from time to time."
In the same line, after the word "person" insert " or persons." In
the 5th line of the same page,
after the word "person" insert " or persons." Strike out the last
enacting clause.
Mr. Lambert Hyland, a delegate returned for Somerset
county, appeared, and after qualifying
in the mode prescribed by the constitution and form of government, and
taking the oath to support
the constitution of the United States, took his seat in the house.
The clerk of the senate delivers the following message:
By the SENATE, December 6, 1796.
GENTLEMEN,
WE propose on Friday next, if agreeable to your house,
to go into a joint ballot for the election
of a senator to represent this state in the senate of the United States
after the third day of March
next, which is the end of the term for which John Eager Howard, Esquire,
was chosen.
By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk.
Which was read.
The house took into consideration the petition of Christopher
Hughes, and others, and the counter
petitions thereto, agreeably to the order of the day, and after examination
of witnesses on behalf
of the petitioners and the counter petitioners, and hearing counsel at
the bar of the house in support
of the same, ORDERED, That the further consideration thereof be postponed
until to-morrow.
The order of the day for the second reading the bill
for the better administration of justice in the
several counties of this state is postponed till to-morrow.
The house adjourns till to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.
W E D N
E S D A
Y, December 7, 1796.
THE house met. Present the same members as
on yesterday. The proceedings of yesterday
were read.
A petition from John Eccleston, of Dorchester county,
praying the treasurer may be empowered
to reimburse him the principal, interest and cost, of a judgment obtained
against him for certain
property which he purchased of the late intendant, which he had paid for
previous to the institution
of the suit against him by the state, was preferred, read, and referred
to Mr. Wilson, Mr. Campbell
and Mr. Baker, to consider and report thereon.
Mr. J. C. Thomas, from the committee, brings in and
delivers to the speaker the following report:
THE committee to whom was referred the petition of Anne
Welsh, of Anne-Arundel county,
praying that there may be a sum of money allowed her annually for the maintenance
of her daughter
Ciney Welsh, who is an idiot, and hath been so from her birth, report,
that they have taken the
said petition under consideration, and find the facts to be as therein
stated; and your committee being
of opinion that the said Ciney Welsh is an object of pity and compassion,
and entitled to relief,
|
 |
