VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1805. 95

time by especial order, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed, The bill to prevent free negroes from
selling any corn, wheat, tobacco, or other articles, without having a licence for that purpose from a justice of
the peace, endorsed, " will pass with the proposed amendments; " which amendments were read. The further
supplement to an act for the more effectual collection of the county charges in Allegany county, endorsed,
" will not pass. " A bill, entitled, An act relating to the inspection of tobacco not the growth of this state,
endorsed, " will pass; " which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table. And a bill, entitled, An
ad to suspend the operation of the part of the act of assembly therein mentioned, endorsed, " will pass; "
which was read the first and second time by especial order and passed.

A petition from William R. Sewell, of Calvert county, praying an act of insolvency, was preferred, read,
and referred to the committee appointed on petitions of a similar nature.

ORDERED, That the supplement to an act to establish a bank, and incorporate a company, under the name of
The Farmers Bank of Maryland, and for other purposes, have a second reading on to-morrow.

ORDERED, That the supplement to an act, entitled, An act to erect Baltimore-town, in Baltimore county,
into a city, and to incorporate the inhabitants thereof, have a second reading on Tuesday the 21st inst.

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

SATURDAY, January 18, 1806.

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

The bill to suspend the operation of the part of the act of assembly therein mentioned, and the act to ascer-
tain the mode of completing the title to purchasers of certain confiscated British property, and for other pur-
poses, were sent to the senate by the clerk.

A petition from Robert Morgan, of Harford county, praying a law may pass authorising a lottery to repair
St. George's parish in said county, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Forwood, Mr. Montgomery and
Mr. Ayres, to consider and report thereon.

The house proceeded to the second reading of the bill to authorise the trustees of the poor of Baltimore
county to dispose of, in lots, the alms-house property of said county, and for other purposes; on motion, the
question was put, That the words " trustees of the poor" be stricken out of the title of said bill ? Resolved
in the affirmative.

The question was then put, That the words " justices of the levy court. " be inserted in lieu of the words
stricken out? Resolved in the affirmative.

The question was then put, That the further consideration of the said bill be referred to the next general
assembly ? Resolved in the affirmative.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of the town of Nottingham, praying commissioners may be appointed to
lay off and regulate the town aforesaid, and to make regulations relative to the wharf and ferry boats, was pre-
ferred, read, and referred to Mr. Contee, Mr. Van-Horn and Mr. Callis, to consider and report thereon.

The following resolution was read the first and second time by especial order and concurred with.

THE committee appointed to bring in a bill to be entitled, Au act to regulate and discipline the militia of
this state, beg leave to submit the following resolution:

RESOLVED, That the governor and council be and they are hereby requested to lay before the house the
books and papers belonging lo the adjutant-general's office, now in the council chamber, containing the enrol-
ment of the militia, together with a statement of the cost of the same, and the roster of the officers that have
been and are now commissioned therein.

The house, according to the order of the day, proceeded to the second reading of the supplement to an act
to establish a bank, and incorporate a company, under the name of The Farmers Bank of Maryland, and for
other purposes, which being read throughout, and sometime spent in debating the same, the question was put,
Shall the said bill pass? The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Neale, Merriken, Chapman, Frazier, Muir, Hawkins, Turpin. Selby,
Hebb, Mercer, Ogden, Ward. Shaaff, Waters, Jump. Watts,
Plater, Dorsey, Denny, Smoot, Blake, Kuhn, Bowles, Linthicum,

Scott, Higgins, Lloyd, Porter, Gleaves, Ayres, Smith, Bruce,

Hanson, Stuart, Dickinson, Van Horn, Sturgis, Holbrook, Yates, Tomlinson,
Hunt, Parnham, Jackson, Contee, Bishop, Bayard, Carroll. Rizer. 51.
Gale, M'Pherson, Cottman,

NEGATIVE.

Messrs. Somervell, Harryman, Hyland, Sudler, Montgomery, Forwood, Ellicott, Stephen. 8.

So it was resolved in the affirmative.

The said bill was sent to the senate by the clerk.

A petition from Robert Nesbit, of the city of Baltimore, praying an act of insolvency, was preferred, read,

and referred to the committee appointed on petitions of a similar nature.

The following resolution was read the first and second time by especial order and assented to.
RESOLVED, That the communications received during this session, relative to the stock belonging to this

state in the bank of England and the sale thereof, shall no longer be considered secret and confidential.