VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1805. 67

NEGATIVE.

Hanson, Lemmon, Hyland, Ward, Turpin, Smith, Watts, Linthicum. 12.
Ogden, Bayly, Frazier, Smoot,

So it was resolved in the affirmative.

On motion, the question was put, That the following clause be added to the said bill ? viz. " And be it
enacted, That the said judges shall receive no other or further compensation than what is allowed in this act,
any thing in any law to the contrary notwithstanding. " Resolved in the affirmative.
The question was then put, Shall the said bill pass ? Resolved in the affirmative.

A memorial from Samuel Knox, praying a law to authorise a lottery to raise a sum of money for the benefit
of the institution under the direction of the memorialist, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Stephen
Mr. Ellicott and Mr. Harryman, to consider and report thereon.

The clerk of the senate delivers the bill for the benefit of Anne Reynolds, of Talbot county, endorsed,
"will pass. " Ordered to be engrossed. And the resolution in favour of Joseph Mills, endorsed, " assented to. "
The house adjourns until to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.

WEDNESDAY, January 1, 1806.

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

The bill for the benefit of Thomas Hodges and Eleanor Hodges, the infant children of James Hodges, late
of Prince-George's county, deceased, was read the second time and passed.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Frederick-town, praying a road may be laid out and opened from East-
street, opposite to the end of Third-street, through a lot of Samuel Lilly, parallel to the south line of said lot,
and thence with the same course through colonel Baker Johnson's land, to the road leading from the east end
of Church-street to colonel Baker Johnson's mill, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Kuhn, Mr. Haw-
kins and Mr. Waters, to consider and report thereon.

The amendments proposed to the bill to prevent persons erecting booths, and retailing spirituous liquors,
within one mile of the places of religious worship of the people called Methodists in the several counties there-
in mentioned, was read the second time, and the question put, Will the house agree to the said amendments?
Determined in the negative.

Mr. Stephen, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to enlarge the powers of
the levy court of Baltimore county, and for other purposes; which was read the first time and ordered to lie
on the table.

The bill to alter and change the name of Elizabeth Sower, of the city of Baltimore, to that of Elizabeth
Lammott, was read the second time and passed.

The house, according to the order of the day, proceeded to the second reading of the bill to withdraw the
funds from Washington and Saint-John's colleges, and subject the same to the appropriation of the legislature;
the bill being read throughout, and after hearing counsel at the bar of the house in behalf of the governors and
visitors of said colleges, the question was put, Shall the said bill pass ? The yeas and nays being required, ap-
peared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Hanson, Lemmon, Porter, Bishop, Forwood, Turpin, Yates, Linthicum,
Holland, Harryman, Blake, Waters, Ayres, Jump, Carroll, Tomlinson,
Mackall, Smoot, Nicholson, Cockey, Street, Bowles, Selby, Rizer;
Somervell, Cox, Gleaves, Kuhn, Holbrook, Smith, Watts, Cresap. 37.

Ogden, Moffit, Sturgis, Montgomery, Bayard,

NEGATIVE.
Plater, Merriken, Stuart, Lloyd, Hyland, Van-Horn, Callis, Ellicott,

Scott, Mercer, Parnham, Jackson, Frazier, Hall, Muir, Stephen,
Hunt, Dorsey, M'Pherson, Bayly, Ennalls, Contee, Shaaff, Bruce. 29.

Gale, Higgins, Chapman, Cottman, Ward,

So it was resolved in the affirmative.

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

THURSDAY, January 2, 1806.

THE house met. Present the same members as on yesterday. The proceedings of yesterday were read.
The bill to alter the time of the meeting of the general assembly of this state, and for other purposes, the
bill to establish permanent salaries for the judges of the six judicial districts in this state, the bill for the bene-
fit of Thomas Hodges and Eleanor Hodges, the infant children of James Hodges, late of Prince-George's coun-
ty, deceased, the bill to withdraw the funds from Washington and Saint-John's colleges, and subject the same
to the appropriation of the legislature, and the bill to alter and change the name of Elizabeth Sower, of the
city of Baltimore, to that: of Elizabeth Lammott, were sent to the senate by the clerk.

A petition from Jacob Workman, of Allegany county, stating, that he had taken up a lot westward of Fort
Cumberland by virtue of a special warrant, and praying that the state would relinquish its right, thereto, upon