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resolution, after the word " ballots, " insert "of all the attending members of both houses of the legisla-

ture."

By order, T. W. HALL, clk.
Which amendment was read the first and second time and agreed to.

The clerk of the senate also delivers the bill, entitled, An act for the relief of Thomas Webb, of Montgo-
mery county, endorsed; By the senate, November 16, 1805: Read the first time and ordered to lie on the
" table.

" By order, T. W. HALL, clk.
" By the senate, November 20, 1805: Read the second time and will pass.

" By order, T. W. HALL, clk. "
Ordered to be engrossed.

Mr. Kuhn, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to authorise a lottery in Fre-
derick-town, in Frederick county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Lloyd, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, A further supplement to an act, en-

titled, An act for the direction of sheriffs and cornoers in the return of jurors, and for the better regualtion of

juries; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Stephen, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to authorise the drawing a
lottery for the benefit of Saint-Mary's college in Baltimore county; which was read the first time and ordered
to lie on the table.

The house proceeded to ballot for two directors on the part of this state in the Union Bank of Maryland;
the ballots being deposited in the ballot box, the gentlemen named to strike retired, and after sometime return-
ed and reported, that Thomas Dickson only had a majority of the votes of all the attending members of both
branches of the legislature.

The house then proceeded to ballot for another director on the part of this State in the Bank of Mary-

land; the ballots being deposited in the ballot box, the gentlemen named to strike retired, and after sometime

returned and reported that Alexander Rogers had a majority of the votes of all the attending members of both

branches of the legislature.
Whereupon RESOLVED, That Thomas Dickson and Alexander Rogers be, and they are hereby declared to be,

the two directors on the part of the state in the Union Bank of Maryland.

Mr. Stephen, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, A further additional supplement to

an act, entitled, An act for marking and bounding lands; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on

the table.

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

FRIDAY, November 22, 1805.

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

The bill, entitled, An act to authorise and empower the levy court of Worcester county to levy annually a
sum of money on the assessable property of said county for the purposes therein mentioned, was read the second
time and passed.

The report on the petition of John Crow, and others, was read the second time and concurred with.

A petition from the committee of Buckingham congregation in Worcester county, praying a law may pass
ratifying the proceedings of the committee from the fourth Monday of May, eighteen hundred and five, and to
authorise them to act as a committee of the said congregation until the fourth Monday of April, eighteen hun-
dred and six, or within twenty days thereafter, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Prideaux, Mr. Stur-
gis and Mr. Cottman, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Worcester county, praying that a law may pass for the laying out a
road from Mitchell's Causeway, as has been a by-way, through the lands of John P. Mitchell and the heirs of
John Ratcliff, deceased, and from thence on the south side of Josiah Mitchell's plantation, and to the lands of
Seth Whaley, and from thence to intersect the Soccom road, near the line meeting-house, where the said road
leads to Broad creek, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Prideaux, Mr. Sturgis and Mr. Cottman, to

consider and report thereon.

The report on the petition of Thomas Nicholls, of Simon, of Montgomery county, was read the second time

and the resolution therein contained assented to.

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, An act to authorise a lottery to raise a sum of money for
building a bridge over a branch of Patuxent river near John Crow's mill. ORDERED, That Mr. Van-Horn,
Mr. Watts and Mr. Dorsey, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.

A petition from Benjamin Polk, of Somerset county, praying an act of insolvency, was preferred, read, and
referred to the committee appointed on petitions of a similar nature.

The bill, entitled, An act to open a road from Barnsville, in Montgomery county, to Zachariah Maccubbin's
mill, and from thence to intersect the main road leading from Frederick-town to George-town, at or near Log-
town, was read the second time and passed.