106 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1805.

The clerk of the senate delivers the bill to ascertain the. mode of completing the title to purchasers of cer-
tain confiscated British property, and for other purposes, endorsed, " will pass. " Ordered to be engrossed.
The bill making provision for the division of certain lands in Kent county, and the bill to grant to Caleb John-
son, Hezekiah Johnson and Richard Britton, an exclusive right to work and use carding machines on the west-
ern shore of this state for the time therein limitted, severally endorsed, " will not pass. " The resolutions in
favour of Patrick Murdock and Charles A. Warfield, and Robert Dorsey, severally endorsed, " assented to. "
And the resolutions relative to the bank stock of the state, endorsed, " dissented from. "

Mr. Dorsey, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the following report:

THE committee to whom was referred the petition of Henry Gassaway, of Anne-Arundel county, report,
that they have taken the same under their consideration, and are of opinion that the prayer of the petitioner
ought to be granted; therefore they submit the following resolution:

RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore be and ha is hereby authorised and directed to pay in
advance unto the said Henry Gassaway, or to his order, on application, the amount of one year's allowance di-
rected by the resolution passed in his favour at November session, eighteen hundred and four.

By order, J. GOLDER, clk.
Which was read.

The bill to pay the civil list, and other expences of civil government, was read the second time, passed, and
sent to the senate by the clerk.

Mr. Stephen, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to authorise the elders
and trustees of the German evangelical reformed church in Baltimore county to draw a lottery within the city
of Baltimore; which was read the first and second time by especial order, passed, and sent to the senate by
the clerk.

The house, according to the order of the day, proceeded to the second reading of the bill for the encou-
ragement of learning in this state; on progression, the question was put, That the first enacting clause b
stricken out? Resolved in the affirmative.

On motion, the question was put, That the following be inserted in lieu of the clause stricken out? viz.
"Be it enacted, by the general assembly of Maryland, That the several sums of money herein after mentioned,
or so much thereof as each county shall entitle itself to in the manner herein after specified and provided, shall
be and the same are hereby appropriated for, and granted to, the several counties of this state, and to the city
of Baltimore, as annual donations for the support, in the respective counties and the city aforesaid, of such se-
minaries for education as may be established by the trustees herein after named for each respective county; that
is to say, For Saint Mary's county the sum of 825 dollars, for Kent county the sum of 750 dollars, for Calvert
county the sum of 525 dollars, for Anne-Arundel county the sum of 1350 dollars, for Charles county the sura
of 1125 dollars, for Baltimore county, exclusive of the city of Baltimore, the sum of 2250 dollars, for Dor-
chester county the sum of 1125 dollars, for Caecil county the sum of 1050 dollars, for Prince-George's county
the sum of 1200 dollars, for Queen-Anne's county the sum of 900 dollars, for Worcester county the sum of
1125 dollars, for Harford county the sum of 1200 dollars, for Caroline county the sum of 600 dollars, for Wash-
ington county the sum of 1350 dollars, for Montgomery county the sum of 975 dollars, for Allegany county
the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars, for Somerset county the sum of 1050 dollars, for Talbot county the
sum of 900 dollars, for Frederick county the sum of 2250 dollars, and for the city of Baltimore the sum of
1875 dollars. " Resolved in the affirmative.

On motion, the question was put, That the following be inserted at the end of said amendment? viz. " Pro-
Tided that nothing herein contained shall affect, or be construed to affect, the donation heretofore given by law
for the use of an academy to be erected in Baltimore or Harford county, but the same shall be subject to the or-
ders of the trustees herein named of the said respective counties, in the proportions hereafter to be prescribed
by law. " The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Plater, Lemmon, Smoot, Shaaff, Waters, Forwood, Ellicott, Bruce. 15.
Ogden, Harryman, Muir, Sudler, Montgomery, Ayres, Stephen,

NEGATIVE.

Neale, Merriken, M'Pherson, Hyland, Hall, Hawkins, Bowles, Watts,
Hebb, Higgins, Chapman, Frazier, Contee, Kuhn, Smith, Linthicum,
Scott. Holland, Denny, Ward, Gleaves, Bayard, Yates, Tomlinson,
Hanson, Stuart, Lloyd, Cox, Sturgis, Turpin, Carroll, Rizer. 39.
Hurtt, Parnham, Dickinson, Van-Horn, Bishop, Jump, Selby,

So it was determined in the negative.
On motion, the question was then put, That the following be inserted after the said amendment, viz.

And be it enacted, That all donations to any of the counties of this state, or to any seminary of learning
established therein, be and the same are hereby withdrawn, and the several acts of assembly granting the same
be and they are hereby repealed. " The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:
AFFIRMATIVE.

Scott, Lemmon, Smoot, Sturgis, Forwood, Turpin, Stephen, Yates,

Hanson, Harryman, Cox, Bishop, Ayres. Jump, Bowles, Watts,
R. Mackall, Frazier, Porter, Montgomery, Bayard, Ellicott, Smith, Tomlinson. 27

Ogden, Ward, Sudler,