Esquires, were duly elected delegates to represent said county in the general assembly of this state.
All which is submitted to the house.
                                                            By order,                                        J. W.  KING, clk.
Which was read the first and second time and concurred with.
    Mr. Ridout, from the committee of elections and privileges, brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker
the following report:
    THE committee of elections and privileges, to whom was referred the petition of Edward Norwood,
praying that the constitutionality of the election of James Carroll, a delegate returned for
Baltimore county, may be inquired into, report, that they have taken the said petition under their
consideration, and find, by the certificate of R. H. Moale, secretary to the commissioners for Baltimore-town,
that the said James Carroll, at an election held for Baltimore-town on the fifth day of
October, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, offered himself as a representative for the said town in
the general assembly of this state, and that on finally closing the polls for said election, James Carroll
had eighty-six legal votes; and your committee are informed, that the said James Carroll continued
an inhabitant of said town for several months subsequent to the said fifth day of October, seventeen
hundred and ninety-five, but whether these circumstances are sufficient to disqualify said James
Carroll from taking a seat as a delegate for Baltimore county, the committee leave to the decision of
the house; and for this purpose they are of opinion that a certain day should be fixed by the house
for the investigation of this subject, and therefore submit the following order:
    ORDERED, That on the 22d day of November this house will inquire into the constitutionality
of the election of James Carroll, a delegate returned for Baltimore county, and that any depositions
taken on three days notice to the opposite party may be read in evidence to the house.
    All which is submitted to the house.
                                                            By order,                                        J. W.  KING, clk.
Which was read the first and second time and concurred with.
    Mr. Robins, from the committee, brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker a bill, entitled, An act
declaring the right of personal liberty, and redressing the injuries thereto; which was read the first
time and ordered to lie on the table.
    ORDERED, That the said bill have a second reading on to-morrow week.
    A petition from sundry inhabitants of Allegany county, praying an act may pass authorising the
collectors of said county to sell any real property, provided no personal property can be found on the
land, for the collection of the county charges, where the same is not paid in the time limitted by
law, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Chapman, Mr. Robins, Mr. Clarke, Mr. J. C.
Beatty and Mr. Duckett, to consider and report thereon.
    On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill to prevent the exportation of bread and flour not merchantable
from the town of Havre-de-Grace, and for the inspection of salted provisions.  ORDERED, 
That Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Prall and Mr. Spencer, be a committee to prepare and bring in
the same.
    A petition from Christian Weaver, of Baltimore, praying an act may pass to confirm his title
to part of a tract of land called Level Union, which he purchased of a certain Richard Allen, an
alien, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Worthington, Mr. Carroll and Mr. Merryman, to
consider and report thereon.
    The clerk of the senate delivers the following message: