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VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November, 1796.
or personal property within said city, which amount shall appear by
his public assessment." The
yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:
A F F I
R M A T
I V E.
Messieurs
Hopewell,
Spencer,
Hall,
Brome,
Bourne,
Digges, |
Sherwood,
Johnson,
Lamdin,
Wilkins,
Goldsborough,
Hollingsworth, |
Miller,
Wallace,
Savin,
Duckett,
Calvert, |
Brown,
Butcher,
C. Frazier,
Robins,
Jarrett, |
Prall,
Boone,
Winchester,
Cellar,
Bowles, |
McClain,
Douglass,
J. C. Beatty,
Beall,
Tomlinson. |
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N E G A
T I V E.
Messieurs
W. Thomas,
Neale,
Buchanan,
Ridout, |
J. C. Thomas,
Sprigg,
Parnham,
Worthington, |
Ridgely,
Carroll,
Harwood,
Jones, |
Hyland,
Baker,
Campbell,
Quynn, |
Nicholson,
Whittington,
Corbin,
Wilson, |
McComas,
Reintzel,
Oneale,
Clarke. |
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
The clerk of the senate delivers an account of seals
and taxes received by the register in chancery,
agreeably to an act of assembly, endorsed; " By the senate, December
19, 1796: Read and referred
" to the consideration of the house of delegates.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk.
The bill to extend the public road leading from Easton, in Talbot county,
to Aker's ferry, endorsed;
" By the senate, December 3, 1796: Read the first time and ordered
to lie on the table.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 19, 1796: Read the second time and will
not pass.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk."
The bill to prevent the exportation of flour not merchantable, and
unsound salted provisions, from
the port of Havre-de-Grace, endorsed; " By the senate, December 12, 1796:
Read the first time and
" ordered to lie on the table.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 19, 1796: Read the second time and will
pass.
" By order,
A. VAN-HORN, clk."
Ordered to be engrossed.
The house adjourns till 5 o'clock.
P O S T
M E R I
D I E M.
The house met.
Mr. Duckett, from the committee, brings in and delivers
to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act
to repeal part of the act of assembly therein mentioned; which was
read the first time and ordered to
lie on the table.
Mr. Hopewell, from the committee, brings in and delivers
to the speaker a bill, entitled An act
for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors; which was read the first time
and ordered to lie on the
table.
RESOLVED, That the further consideration of the bill
to erect Baltimore-town, in Baltimore
county, into a city, and to incorporate the inhabitants thereof, be postponed.
A petition from Philip Casson, of Caroline county, stating,
that he was wounded during the late
war, and praying he may be granted half pay as lieutenant from the 27th
December, 1788, to the
present time, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Driver, Mr. Key
and Mr. Young, to consider
and report thereon.
Mr. Montgomery, from the committee, brings in and delivers
to the speaker a bill, entitled, An
additional supplement to an act, entitled, An act to streighten and amend
the post road leading from
Havre-de-Grace to Baltimore-town; which was read the first time and ordered
to lie on the
table.
On motion, ORDERED, That the bill permitting the proprietors
of lots binding on the water at
the west end of the bason in Baltimore-town to extend and improve the same
have a second reading
to-morrow.
Mr. Jones, from the committee, brings in and delivers
to the speaker a bill, entitled, An additional
supplement to an act, entitled, An act relative to public roads in this
state, and to repeal the
acts of assembly therein mentioned; which was read the first time and ordered
to lie on the table.
The bill to provide for the payment of costs of
suit to which the state may be a party was read
the second time and passed.
The report on the petition of sundry inhabitants of
Dorchester county was read the second time,
and the question put, That the house concur therewith? Resolved in
the affirmative, and leave
given to bring in a bill pursuant thereto. ORDERED, That Mr. S. Frazier,
Mr. Pattison and
Mr. Ridout, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.
Mr. Wilkins, from the committee, brings in and delivers
to the speaker a bill, entitled, A further
additional supplementary act to the act, entitled, An act for marking of
highways, and making the
heads of rivers, creeks, branches and swamps, passable for horse and foot,
and to repeal the acts of
assembly therein mentioned, so far as relates to Somerset county; which
was read the first time and
ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. William Thomas, from the committee, brings in and
delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled,
An act for the regulation of officers and attornies fees; which was read
the first time and ordered to
lie on the table.
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