MONDAY the seventh instant being the day appointed by the constitution and form of 
government for the meeting of the legislature of this state, several of the members
of this house accordingly met on that day, and a sufficient number of members to
proceed on business not appearing, the house adjourned until this day, when the following
members appeared, viz.
 
 

For SAINT-MARY's county, Mr. William Thomas, Mr. James Hopewell, Mr. Wilfred Neale, Mr. Philip Key. KENT county, Mr. William Spencer, Mr. Robert Buchanan, junior, Mr. William Barroll. ANNE-ARUNDEL county, Mr. Horatio Ridout, Mr. John Chew Thomas, Mr. William Brogden, Mr. Edward Hall. CALVERT county, Mr. William D. Brome, Mr. William Sprigg, Mr. Peter Emerson, Mr. Thomas Bourne. CHARLES county, Mr. Henry H. Chapman. TALBOT county, Mr. Philemon Sherwood, Mr. John Harwood,

Mr. Henry Johnson, Mr. Wrightson Lamdin. SOMERSET county, Mr. Benjamin Jones, Mr. John Wilkins. DORCHESTER county, Mr. Solomon Frazier, Mr. Levin H. Campbell, Mr. Richard Goldsborough, Mr. Richard Pattison. CÆCIL county, Mr. Levi Hollingsworth, Mr. Thomas Wallace. PRINCE-GEORGE's county, Mr. Allen B. Duckett, Mr. George Calvert, Mr. William Baker. City of ANNAPOLIS, Mr. Allen Quynn. QUEEN-ANNE's county, Mr. Joseph Nicholson, Mr. James Brown. WORCESTER county, Mr. James B. Robins,

Mr. Ephraim K. Wilson. FREDERICK county, Mr. Valentine Brother, Mr. Allen Quynn, junior, Mr. William Beatty, Mr. David Shriver. HARFORD county, Mr. Abraham Jarrett, Mr. Edward Prall. CAROLINE county, Mr. John Bennett, Mr. John Young. WASHINGTON county, Mr. John Cellar, Mr. Thomas Bowles, Mr. James McClain, Mr. Robert Douglass. MONTGOMERY county, Mr. Daniel Reintzel, Mr. Elimelech Swearingen. ALLEGANY county, Mr. Daniel Clarke, junior, Mr. Asa Beall, Mr. Benjamin Tomlinson.

    A sufficient number of delegates being convened, they severally qualified in the presence of each
other, by taking the several oaths required by the constitution and form of government, subscribing a
declaration of their belief in the christian religion, and by taking, repeating and subscribing, the oath
to support the constitution of the United States.
    The house proceeded to ballot for a speaker, and the ballots being deposited in the ballot box, the
gentlemen named to strike after some time returned and reported, that the honourable Philip Key,
Esquire, was unanimously elected.