Mr. Hollingsworth, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, A
supplement to an act, entitled, An act to remove the market-house at the head of Elk, and 
establish the same, and for the advancement and regulation of said town; which was read the first
time and ordered to lie on the table.
    The report on the petition of sundry inhabitants of Baltimore-town, respecting the seminary lately
burnt in that town, was read the second time, and the question put, That the house assent to the resolution
therein contained?  Determined in the negative.
    On motion, ORDERED, That the second reading of the bill related to negroes, and to repeal
the acts of assembly therein mentioned, be postponed until Tuesday next.
    On motion, the question was put on the following:
    RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore be and he is hereby authorised and directed to
advance on loan to Jesse Hollingsworth, Philip Rogers and Emanuel Kent, the sum of eight thousand
dollars, to be applied to the rebuilding and completing the academy in Baltimore-town lately consumed
by fire, reimburseable in five years, on the trustees of said academy executing a mortgage of
the said property to the state for securing the repayment of the said advance at the time aforesaid,
and giving security, to be approved of by the treasurer, for the application of said money to the improvement
of said academy?
    The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow: