VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1805. 101

petitioner to the state, and upon the payment of which the bond of the petitioner, agreeably to the prayer of the petition,
ought to be cancelled, and all demands against him, on the part of the state, on the account aforesaid, extinguished;
and, that the said bond may be cancelled, and all demands as aforesaid extinguished, upon the payment of the s?id claim,
the committee submit the following resolutions:

RESOLVED, That the whole of the principal, and interest from December, seventeen hundred and ninety-one, is now
due upon the bond given by Samuel Chase to the state, with Jeremiah T. Chase and Henry Ridgely securities, and up-
on the payment thereof the governor and council are hereby authorised to give up the said bond to the said Samuel Chase,
to be cancelled.

RESOLVED, That the sum of one hundred and twenty-nine pounds ten shillings and six-pence halfpenny sterling, is
due to the state from the said Samuel Chase, it being a balance arising from deducting the sum of two hundred and ten
pounds ten shillings and six-pence halfpenny sterling from three hundred and thirty-nine pounds sterling, being the
amount, with the interest, which was due on account of the advance under the resolution of November session, seven-
teen hundred and eighty-four, after deducting three hundred and fifty pounds, given under the resolution of November
session, seventeen hundred and ninety; and the governor and council are hereby authorised to give an acquittance to the
said Samuel Chase, upon the payment of the said sum of one hundred and twenty-nine pounds ten shillings and six-
pence halfpenny sterling.

RESOLVED, That Samuel Chase reimburse the state to the amount of the commissions transferred to him by Mr.
Pinkney upon the sum paid Mr. Harford, after deducting therefrom commissions upon bank stock, if any, received
since payment to Mr. Pinkney, and due before; and the governor and council are hereby authorised to give an acquit-
tance for the same, upon payment thereof.

By order, L. GASSAWAY, clk.
Which was read.

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, An act to pay the civil list, and other expences of civil
government. ORDERED, That Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Cottman and Mr. Smoot, be a committee to prepare and
bring in the same.

Mr. Cottman, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to lay out, open and clear,
a certain road in Somerset county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Montgomery, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act relative to the collec-
tion of the debts due to the state; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

The house adjourns until to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.

TUESDAY, January 21, 1806.

THE house met. Present the same members as on yesterday. The proceedings of yesterday were read.
Mr. Holland and Mr. R. Mackall appear in the house.

A petition from Ariana French, and others, of the district of Columbia, praying that the right of the state
may be relinquished in certain lands, formerly the property of Thomas French, deceased, was preferred, read,
and referred to Mr. Stephen, Mr. Carroll and Mr. Van-Horn, to consider and report thereon.

Petitions from Richard Harvey, of Baltimore county, and John R. Brumwell, of Talbot county, praying acts
of insolvency, were preferred, read, and referred to the Committe appointed on petitions of a similar nature.

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, A supplement to an act, entitled, An act to reduce into
one the several acts of assembly respecting elections, and to regulate said elections. ORDERED, That Mr. Bruce,
Mr. Tomlinson and Mr. Rizer, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.

The bill relating to the inspection of tobacco not the growth of this state, was read the second time, and
the question put, Shall the said bill pass? Determined in the negative.

The house, according to the order of the day, proceeded to the second reading of the report of the commit-
tee of conference; on progression, the question was put. That the words who effected the transfer and com-
pleted the sale, " be inserted between the words " authority" and " the ?" Resolved in the affirmative.

On motion, the question was then put, Will the house concur with the first part of said report, as far as the
word " proceeds?" The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Scott. Holland, Lloyd. Contee, Hawkins, Forwood, Jump Yates,

Hanson. R Mackall, Dickinson, Sudler, Waters, Ayres, Stephen, Bruce,

Merriken, B. Mackall, Smoot, Gleaves. Cockey. Holbrook, Bowles, Tomlinson,

Dorsey, Lemmon, Cox, Sturgis. Kuhn. Bayard, Smith, Rizer. 3".

Higgins. Harryman, Porter. Bishop, Montgomery, Turpin,

Hebb, Stuart. Chapman. Hyland. Van-Horn. Muir, Carroll. Watts,
Hater, Parnham, Jackson. Frazier, Hall, Shaaff, Selby, Linthicum. 20,
Mercer, M'Pherson, Cottman, Ward,

So it was resolved in the affirmative.
On progression, the question was put, That the word following" be inserted before the word resolu-

tion?" Resolved in the affirmative.

The question was then put, That the words herewith reported" be stricken out? Reeved in the affir-.