94 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1805.

FRIDAY, January 17, 1806.

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

On motion, ORDERED, That 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, be recommitted
for amendment.

Mr. Lemmon, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, A Supplement to the act, entitled,
An act to authorise the levy court of Baltimore county to establish two additional warehouses in the city o:
Baltimore for the inspection of tobacco; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

ORDERED, That the report of the committee of conference be recommitted for amendment.

Mr. Watts, from the committee, delivers lo the speaker a bill, entitled, An act for the regulation of officers
fees; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

On motion, the question was put, That the further consideration of the said bill be referred to the next ge-
neral assembly? The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Stuart, Lloyd, Smoot, Shaaff, Kuhn, Holbrook, Bowles, Selby,
Chapman, Dickinson, Callis, Sturgis, Montgomery, Turpin, Smilh, Bruce,
Lemmon, Cottman, Muir, Waters, Ayres, Stephen, Carroll, Rizer. 26.
Harryman, Frazier,

NEGATIVE.

Plater, Gale. B Mackall, Ogden, Ward, Blake, Forwood, Yates,

Hebb, Merriken, Somervell, Denny, Cox, Sudler, Bayard, Watts,

Scott, Mercer, Parnham, Jackson, Porter, Gleaves, Jump, Linthicum,

Hanson, Dorsey, M'Pherson, Hyland, Van-Horn, Bishop, Ellicott, Tomlinson. 34.

Hurtt, Higgins,

So it was determined in the negative.

On motion, the question was put, That the same have a second reading on Monday week next ? Determined
in the negative.

The question was then put, That the same have a second reading on Wednesday next? Resolved in the affir-
mative.

The house, according to the order of the day, proceeded to the second reading of the bill authorising the
extension of the Falls turnpike to the Pennsylvania line; on motion, the question was put, That, the word
" to" be stricken out of the title of the said bill? Resolved in the affirmative.

The question was then put, That the word " towards" be inserted in lieu of the word stricken out ? Re-
solved in the affirmative.

The question was then put, That the further consideration of the said bill be referred to the first day of
June next ? The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Hebb, Somervell, Dickinson, Porter, Bishop, Ayres, Jump, Selby,

Hanson, Ogden, Frazier, Van-Horn, Hawkins, Holbrook, Bowles, Bruce,

Gale, Lemmon, Ward, Blake, Waters, Bayard, Smith, Tomlinson,

Merriken, Harryman, Smoot, Gleaves, Kuhn, Turpin, Yates, Rizer. 37.

Dorsey, Denny, Cox, Sturgis, Forwood,

NEGATIVE.

Plater, B. Mackall, M'Pherson, Jackson, Callis, Shaaff, Montgomery, Stephen,

Mercer, Stuart, Chapman, Cottman, Muir, Sudler, Ellicott, Carroll. 20.

Higgins, Parnham, Lloyd, Hyland,

So it was resolved in the affirmative.

The amendment proposed to the additional supplement to an act, entitled, An act to lay out and establish a
road from the city of Annapolis to the city of Washington, and to repeal the act therein mentioned, was read
the second time, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.

The bill to ascertain the mode of completing the title to purchasers of certain confiscated British property,
and for other purposes, was read the second time and passed.

The amendments proposed to the bill for the benefit of Colmore Duvall, of Prince-George's county, were
read the second time, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.

The clerk of the senate delivers the additional supplement to an act, entitled, An act to extend the powers
of the levy court of Allegany county relative to roads in said county, the bill to authorise and empower the
levy court of Anne-Arundel county to assess a sum of money for the purpose therein mentioned, the bill for
the benefit of Andrew Hamilton, of Prince-George's county, the bill to change the place of holding elections
in the fourth election district of Montgomery county, the bill to authorise the late collectors of public taxes in
Caecil county to complete their several collections, the bill compelling the proprietors of lots binding on the
water at the west end of the bason in the city of Baltimore to extend and improve the same, the bill for erect-
ing a town at or near the mouth of Will's creek, in Allegany county, and the bill to provide for the erection of
a new court-house for Baltimore county, severally endorsed, " will pass. " Ordered to be engrossed. The bill
authorising the chancellor in certain cases to decree conveyances for land the title to which is in British sub-
jects, endorsed, " will pass with the proposed amendments; " which amendments were read the first and second