118 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1805.

The clerk of the senate delivers the bill authorising the drawing of a lottery to defray the expence of build,
ing a masonic hall in the city of Baltimore, endorsed, " will pass. " Ordered to be engrossed. 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, and the bill to restrain the evil practices arising from negroes
"keeping dogs, and to prohibit negroes or mulattoes from carrying guns or offensive weapons, endorsed, " will
not pass. " And the following resolution:

By the SENATE, January 26, 1806.

RESOLVED, That the executive of this state be directed to postpone the sale of the following tracts of land,
claimed by a certain Ariana French, until the chancellor shall decide between the said Ariana French and the
state of Maryland, to wit: Chance, containing one hundred and forty acres; Choice, seventy-six acres; Pro-
perty, one hundred and sixty-eight acres; Tit for Tat, seventy-three acres; Blooming Plains, nine hundred
and seventy seven acres; Durham, three hundred and eighty-four acres; Rising Sun, two hundred and twenty-
five acres; Tom's Venture, ninety-two acres, and Homony Isle, one hundred and one acres; provided the
said Ariana French, her heirs or assigns, shall make application to the chancellor of this state, according to
law, on or before the first day of November next.

By order, T. W. HALL, clk.
Which was read the first and second time by especial order and assented to.

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

THE committee to whom wire referred the resolutions of the legislature of North-Carolina, beg leave to
submit the following resolutions:

RESOLVED, That our senators in the congress of the United States be instructed, and our representatives
requested, to take all legal and necessary steps, to use their utmost exertions, as soon as the same is practica-
ble, to obtain an amendment of the federal constitution, so as to authorise and empower the congress of the United
States to pass a law, whenever they may deem it expedient, to prevent the further importation of slaves from any
of the West-India islands, from the coast of Africa, or elsewhere, into the United States, or any part thereof.

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the governor be and he is hereby requested to transmit copies of the foregoing
resolution to our senators and representatives in congress, also to the executives of all the different states
in the union, with a request that the same may be laid before their respective legislatures for their concurrence
and adoption.

By order, L. GASSAWAY, clk.

Which was read the first and second time by especial order, and the question put, Will the house concur with
the said report and assent to the resolutions therein contained ? The yeas and nays being required, appeared as
fallow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Neale, Holland, Lemmon, Ward, Callis, Forwood, Ellicott, Carroll,

Hebb, K. Mackall, Harryman, Smoot, Sturgis, Ayres, Stephen, Selby,

Plater, Stuart, Dickinson, Cox, Bishop, Bayard, Bowles, Linthicum,

Leigh, Parnham, Jackson, Porter, Hawkins, Turpin, Smith, Tomlinson,

Hanson, M'Pherson, Ennalls, Van-Horn, Montgomery, Jump, Yates, Rizer. 41.

Hurtt, Ogden,

NEGATIVE.

Messieurs Shaaff, Muir, Gleaves, Watts. 4.

So it was resolved in the affirmative.

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

MONDAY, January 27, 1806.

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

The resolution authorising congress to prevent the importation of slaves, and the resolution in favour of
Ariana French, were sent to the senate by the clerk.

The chairman of the committee of claims delivers to the speaker the journal of accounts; which was read
and assented to.

On motion. Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, An act for the payment of the journal of accounts
ORDERED, That the committee of claims prepare and bring in the same.

Mr. Hawkins, from the committee of claims, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act for the payment
of the journal of accounts; which was read the first and second time by especial order and passed; which, to-
gether with the journal of accounts, was sent to the senate by the clerk.

On motion. That the bill to extend further the powers of the clerks of the several counties of this state now
have a second reading? The question was put, That the same be referred to the consideration of the next gene-
ral assembly ? The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Neale, Stuart, Dickinson, Ward, Hall, Muir, Hawkins, Stephen,

Hebb, M'Pherson, Jackson, Cox, Contee, Shaaff, Kuhn, Carroll,

Plater, Lemmon, Cottman, Van-Horn, Callis, Sturgis, Montgomery, Selby. 27.

Leigh, Harryman, Frazier,