" By the senate, December 24, 1796:  Read the second time and will not pass.
                                                        " By order,                                          A.  VAN-HORN, clk."
The bill to authorise and empower the levy court of Dorchester county to assess and levy a sum of
money for the purpose therein mentioned, endorsed; " By the senate, December 23, 1796:  Read
" the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                        " By order,                                          A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 24, 1796:  Read the second time by especial order and will not pass.
                                                        " By order,                                          A.  VAN-HORN, clk."
A bill, entitled, An act to incorporate a company for building a bridge over Jone's Falls, in Baltimore-town,
endorsed; " By the senate, December 23, 1796:  Read the first time and ordered to lie
" on the table.
                                                        " By order,                                          A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 24, 1796:  Read the second time by especial order and will pass.
                                                        " By order,                                          A.  VAN-HORN, clk."
    Which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
The bill to increase the allowance of the justices of the orphans court, the commissioners of the
tax, and the clerk to the commissioners, in the several counties of this state, endorsed; " By the
" senate, December 24, 1796:  Read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                        " By order,                                          A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 24, 1796:  Read the second time by especial order and will pass with the
" proposed amendment.
                                                        " By order,                                          A.  VAN-HORN, clk."
    Amendment proposed.  At the end of the bill add " This act to continue and be in force until
the first day of October, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, and until the end
of the next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter."
    Which was read the first and second time, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.
And the further supplement to the act, entitled, An act to lay out several turnpike roads in Baltimore
county, and for other purposes, endorsed; " By the senate, December 19, 1796:  Read the first
" time and ordered to lie on the table.
                                                        " By order,                                          A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 24, 1796:  Read the second time and will pass with the proposed amendments.
                                                        " By order,                                          A.  VAN-HORN, clk."
    Amendments proposed.  In the 3d line from the bottom of the 1st page, after the word "assembly"
insert the words " of Maryland."  In the first line of the 2d page strike out the word "laws,"
and insert the word "act."  In the 2d line of the same page, after the word "ascertain" insert the
words " not heretofore reviewed and ascertained agreeably to the provisions of the original act."  In
the 7th line of the same page strike out the word "laws" and insert the word "act."  In the same
line, after the word "of" insert the words " road or."  In the 9th line of the same page strike out
the word "laws" and insert the word "act."  Strike out from the beginning of the 3d page to the
word "town" in the 11th line of the 4th page, and insert " And be it enacted, That the said commissioners
of review shall meet on the first Monday in every month at some convenient place in
Baltimore-town or county, to be determined by a majority of the said commissioners, and if any
commissioner shall fail to attend for three successive meetings without a reasonable excuse, to be approved
of by the commissioners attending, the said commissioners shall certify to the commissioners 
of the tax the name of the commissioner of review so failing to attend, and the said commissioners of
the tax shall thereupon proceed to appoint a new commissioner of review in the place of the person
so failing to attend as aforesaid."  Strike out from the word "county" in the 4th line of the 5th
page to the end of the bill, and add the two following clauses: " And be it enacted, That any commissioner
of review who shall continue to act after the first day of February next, and doth refuse or
neglect to do and execute the duties required by the original act, or the supplements thereto, shall
and may, on presentment and conviction thereof in Baltimore county criminal court, be fined any
sum not exceeding twenty dollars for every such offence.  And be it enacted, That each of the commissioners
of review shall be allowed one dollar and thirty-three cents for each and every day they
shall be employed in the execution of their trust, to be paid by the county aforesaid."
    Which were read.
    Mr. Key, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker the following message: