penny, it being the sum paid to the agent aforesaid, as appears by his receipt, bearing date the
twentieth day of May, seventeen hundred and ninety-six, for the land purchased as aforesaid; and to
which the state could give not title under the purchase.
    All which is submitted to the house.
                                                                By order,                                    S.  LUCKETT, clk.
Which was read.
    A petition from Charles Mankin, of Charles county, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr.
Winchester, Mr. Parnham and Mr. Key, to consider and report thereon.
    Mr. Brother, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the petition of Christian Koon, of Frederick county,
report, that under the existing laws of this state there is provided an ample remedy for the petitioner,
but from the smallness of the petitioner's claim, and the expence attending a tedious litigation in a
court of equity, it would, to the apprehension of your committee, be equal to the denial of justice
to refer the petitioner to his ordinary remedy at law; your committee, under this impression, are of
opinion that a prayer of the petitioner ought to be granted, and beg leave to submit the following
resolution:
    RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore pay unto Christian Koon, or order, the sum
of ten pounds three shillings and four-pence current money, provided the said Koon shall enter into
bond to the state of Maryland, with such security as the said treasurer shall approve of, to refund
such proportion of the sum received by him as the other creditors of Robert Wood (if any) would
be entitled to.
    All which is submitted to the house.
                                                                By order,                                    S.  LUCKETT, clk.
    Which was read the first and second time, and the question put, That the house concur therewith?
Determined in the negative.
    Mr. Carroll, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker the following report:
    THE committee to whom was referred the petition of the sundry inhabitants of Baltimore-town,
respecting a seminary of learning lately consumed by fire in said town, beg leave to report, that your
committee find, by satisfactory documents, that the Baltimore academy was very flourishing, and
likely to be eminently useful; that provision was made for carrying on all the parts of a liberal education,
and that a number of the students were actually employed in the higher branches of learning;
that of ten persons, including the principal, appointed to instruct the pupils, only one was of the
same religious society with those who founded the seminary, and that of more than three hundred
scholars, a majority were the children of people of different persuasions; that people of all descriptions
were highly pleased with the management of the institution; that the purchasers of the building,
and trustees of the seminary, do not wish to confine to themselves, nor to restrict to their own society,
the advantage nor the government of it, but desire an act of incorporation, which may transfer
the property to the public, and commit the direction to such trustees and governors as may be judged
most proper; that the petitioners have been at the expence of twelve thousand pounds in establishing
two seminaries of learning, and that the buildings and apparatus of both have been destroyed by fire
in the space of one year.  Your committee beg leave further to report, that the present case appears
to them a proper occasion of legislative interference, because the institution in question promised to
be more than ordinarily useful, because no application was made to the legislature until an accident
disappointed very liberal and disinterested private efforts, because the present application is prompted
by the necessity of the case, because the reasons for granting the prayer of the petition seem to be of
weight, and do not tend to establish a bad precedent, not being applicable to other places in the
state; and finally, because a compliance with the prayer of the petition appears to be dictated by consistency,
as well as by humane and wise policy.  Your committee therefore beg leave to propose the
following resolution:
    RESOLVED, That a sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars be paid out of the treasury to the
order of Philip Rogers, Jesse Hollingsworth and Emanuel Kent, fro the purpose of rebuilding the
Baltimore academy lately destroyed by fire, and that the said Philip Rogers, Jesse Hollingsworth and
Emanuel Kent, give bond, under the penalty of sixteen thousand dollars, before the governor and
council, for the faithful application of the said money to the purposes intended by this resolution.
    All which is submitted to the house.
                                                                By order,                                    J.  HARWOOD, clk.
Which was read.
    Mr. Carroll, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, A further
supplement to an act, entitled, An act to lay out several turnpike roads in Baltimore county, and for
other purposes; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
    On the second reading the bill to lay out and establish a turnpike road from the city of Washington
to Baltimore-town, the question was put, That the house reconsider the following clause?
" And be it enacted, That the president and directors be and are hereby authorised to appoint five
commissioners, neither of whom shall be an inhabitant of Anne-Arundel, Baltimore or Prince-George's
counties, or directly or indirectly interested in any of the lands through which the said road
may or shall pass; and the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall lay out and mark a
public road from the city of Washington to Baltimore-town, on as streight a line as the nature of
the country and public convenience will admit, provided that the said road shall not be carried
through any building, garden, bearing apple orchard or yard, without the consent of the owner or
possessor thereof."  Determined in the negative.