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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1796
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VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November, 1796.            111

    The engrossed bills from No. 1 to 41, except No. 13 and 19, were read and assented to, and sent
to the senate, with the paper bills thereof, by the clerk.
    On motion, ORDERED, That the committee of claims allow the members now attending the
general assembly from the eastern shore such further itinerant charges as to them shall appear reasonable,
on account of their being obliged to return around the head of the bay.
    On motion, ORDERED, That the committee of claims allow each of the delegates from Allegany
county sixteen days itinerant charges.
    The clerk of the senate delivers the bill relating to negroes, and to repeal the acts of assembly
therein mentioned, and the following message.

By the SENATE, December 30, 1796.
        GENTLEMEN,
    AGREEABLY to your message we have reconsidered our first amendment to the bill, entitled, 
An act relating to negroes, and to repeal the acts of assembly therein mentioned, and to recede from
the same.
                                                        By order,                                    A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
Which was read, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.
    The engrossed bills No 43, 44, 45, 48, 49. 50, 51 and 53, were read and assented to, and sent
to the senate, with the paper bills thereof by the clerk.
    The clerk of the senate delivers the resolution in favour of Samuel Patterson Wallace, and the
following message:
By the SENATE, December 30, 1796.
        GENTLEMEN,
    WE cannot reconsider the resolution in favour of Samuel P. Wallace, as requested by you in
your message of yesterday.  It was not the want of competent testimony that induced us to dissent
from it.  Admitting all the facts stated in the petition to fully substantiated, still we should consider
the resolve proposed by you a departure from principles long since established, and in our opinion
founded in sound policy.
                                                        By order,                                    A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
    Which was read.
The bill to erect Baltimore-town, in Baltimore county, into a city, and to incorporate the inhabitants
thereof, and the following message:
By the SENATE, December 30, 1796.
        GENTLEMEN,
    AGREEABLY to your message we have reconsidered our seventh amendment to the bill, entitled,
An act to erect Baltimore-town, in Baltimore county, into a city, and to incorporate the
inhabitants thereof, and do recede from the same.
                                                        By order,                                    A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
    Which was read, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.
The bill to lay out and open a road from a place commonly called Bean-town to Port-Tobacco, in
Charles county, endorsed; " By the senate, December 27, 1796:  Read the first time and ordered
" to lie on the table.
                                                        " By order,                                    A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
" By the senate, December 29, 1796:  Read the second time and will not pass.
                                                        " By order,                                    A.  VAN-HORN, clk."
    The bill for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors was read the second time, passed, and sent to
the senate by the clerk.
    The report on the petition of Richard Alexander Contee was read the second time, the resolution
therein contained assented to, and sent to the senate by the clerk.
    On the second reading the of the report on the petition of Edward Hyland, the question was put,
That the treasurer of the western shore be and he is hereby authorised and directed to pay to Edward
Hyland, of Cæcil county, the sum of £. 152 18 4 current money?  Determined in the negative.
    RESOLVED, That Walter Bowie, Levi Gantt, Benjamin Lowndes and Thomas Duckett, of 
Prince-George's county, and William Harwood and Edward Hall, of Edward, of Anne-Arundel
county, and Charles Wallace and James Williams, of the city of Annapolis, be and they, or any
four of them, are hereby authorised and empowered to examine the situation of the country between
the city of Washington and the city of Annapolis, and ascertain and determine the direction and position
of the nearest and most convenient and practicable road that can be laid off between the said
places, and report the same, with a plot thereof, to the next general assembly.
    RESOLVED, That each of the said persons, for every day he shall attend in ascertaining the direction
and position of the said road, shall be allowed the sum of two dollars; and the respective levy
courts of the counties of Prince-George's and Anne-Arundel are hereby authorised and empowered
to levy a sum of money in their respective counties, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars, for
the purpose of paying said persons.
    The clerk of the senate delivers the following message:
By the SENATE, December 30, 1796.
        GENTLEMEN,
    AS the salaries to the district judges, and the allowances to jurymen and witnesses, and to ourselves,
have been increased during the present session, on the principle of the great rise in the price of
provisions, and of all other articles, the same principle ought to be extended to the chancellor and the

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