112 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, -1805-

NEGATIVE.

Plater, Higgins, Chapman, Smoot, Gleaves, Kuhn, Bayard, Bowles,
Hanson, Holland, Lloyd. Cox, Sturgis, Montgomery, Turpin, Linthicum,
Merriken, Stuart, Jackson, Muir, Hawkins, Ayres, Jump, Tomlinson. 29.

Dorsey, Parnham, Ward, Sudler, Cockey,

So it was determined in the negative.

The bill being read throughout, the question was put, Shall the said bill pass? Resolved in the affirmative.
The house proceeded to the second reading of the bill relative to vagrants in the city of Baltimore; on pro-
gression, the question was put, That the words "common prostitute" be stricken out? Determined in the
negative.

The question was then put, That the further consideration of the said bill be referred to the next general
assembly? The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:
AFFIRMATIVE.

Plater, Holland, Lloyd, Porter, Shaaff, Hawkins, Forwood, Jump,

Hurtt, B. Mackall, Dickinson, Hall, Sudler, Cockey, Ayres, Bowles,

Gale, Stuart, Jackson, Callis, Sturgis, Kuhn, Bayard, Yates,

Dorsey, M'Pherson, Smoot, Muir, Bishop, Montgomery, Turpin, Carroll. 35.

Higgins, Chapman, Cox,

NEGATIVE.

Neale, R Mackall, Lemmon, Van-Horn, Gleaves, Smith, Watts, Bruce,

Hebb, Parnham, Harryman, Contee, Ellicott, Selby, Linthicum, Rizer. 19.

Merriken, Ogden, Denny,

So it was resolved in the affirmative.

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

SATURDAY, January 25, 1806.

THE house met. Present the same members as on yesterday. The proceedings of yesterday were read.

The bill appropriating a sum of money for the erection of a penitentiary, and the bill for the relief of sundry
insolvent debtors, were sent to the senate by the clerk.

The additional supplement to an act for the relief of creditors, and to prevent frauds and deceits occasioned
by secret sales, and mortgages and gifts, of goods and chattels, was read the second time, passed, and sent to
the senate by the clerk.

ORDERED, That the committee of claims close the journal of accounts, including Tuesday next.

The bill to appoint wardens for the port of Baltimore, was read the second time, and the question put, That
the further consideration of the same be referred to the next general assembly? Resolved in the affirmative.

ORDERED, That the committee of claims allow Mr. John Sanders, assistant clerk of the house of delegates,
the sum of fifty dollars, as a further compensation for his services during the present session.

The additional supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the relief of insolvent debtors, was read the second
time, and the question was put, That the further consideration of the same be referred to the next general as-
sembly ? Resolved in the affirmative.

The bill to continue certain acts of assembly, was read the second time, passed, and sent to the senate by
the clerk.

The following memorial was read, and ordered to be placed upon the journal of the house at length.

To the Honourable the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the STATE of MARYLAND.

THE memorial of Rebecca Hanson, widow of Alexander Contee Hanson, late chancellor of the said state,
deceased, humbly sheweth—

That by the unsearchable decree of Providence, your memorialist hath been deprived, in a sudden and de-
plorable manner, of the only protector and supporter of herself and her children, in the death of the aforesaid
Alexander Contee Hanson, by a stroke of apoplexy, on the 16th of the present month.

That the said Alexander Contee Hanson was a native citizen of the said state; that he arrived at the age of
manhood about the time when the rights of America began to be invaded by the ministry of the king of Great-
Britain, and that although his turn of mind, and the course of his education, inclined him to peaceable pursuits,
his zeal for the cause of freedom led him, for a time, into the scene of action and danger, where he had the
honour of serving in the capacity of an extra aid-du-camp to the late illustrious general Washington; that his
family were equally devoted to the cause of the revolution; his father having held the high office of president
of the continental congress, and his brother having lost his life in the memorable action of Fort Washington.

That from these scenes the said Alexander Contee Hanson returned to the avocations of the law, for which
he had prepared himself by early and diligent study; that in his twenty-sixth year, the general opinion of his
talents, and still more the high probity of his character, procured him the honourable appointment of a judge of
the general court, in which station he acted with universal approbation, until he was called to the high office of
chancellor of the aforesaid state; that in the last mentioned station he has acted for fifteen years, with a cha-
racter for judgment, integrity and impartiality, which must be sufficiently known to your honours, and on which
your memorialist therefore forbears to enlarge.