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If you should be of opinion with us, as to the preference of taking the bonds by the justices of the orphans
court, we beg leave to suggest, that an amendment proposed by you. giving them the exclusive power, would pass
this house, rather than the present inconveniencies should be longer submitted to. We therefore solicit a re-
consideration of the subject, in expectation that our wishes may be gratified in the passage of the bill, either
without insisting on your amendment, or with such a modification as we have suggested.

By order, J. BREWER, clk.

A petition from Margaret Wilson, of Montgomery county, praying that she and her children may be support-
ed out of the poor-house, was preferred, read, and referred to the committee appointed on the petition of Sa-
rah Cray.

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

FRIDAY, December 5, 1806,

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

The bill authorising the justices of the orphans courts to take sheriffs bonds, and the message relative there-
to, were sent to the senate by the clerk.

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, A supplement to an act for the advancement of justice.
ORDERED, That Mr. Denny, Mr. Watts and Mr. Blakistone, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, An act to compel justices of the peace to take cognisance
of persons retailing spirituous liquors without licence in the recess of court, and for other purposes. ORDERED,
That Mr. Blakistone, Mr. Hebb, Mr. Davis, Mr. M'Pherson and Mr. Carroll, be a committee to prepare and
bring in the same.

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

THE committee to whom was referred the petition of John C. Bond, late sheriff of Harford county, praying
the legislature of Maryland to release him from the nine per cent, additional interest imposed on him, and
arising on a balance of fifty-eight pounds four shillings and two-pence halfpenny, and finding the prayer of said
petitioner reasonable, therefore,

RESOLVED, That John C. Bond, late sheriff of Harford county, be and he is hereby released from the pay-
ment of the nine per cent, additional interest imposed on him, and arising on the balance of fifty-eight pounds
four shillings and two-pence halfpenny, late a debt due from him as former sheriff of the county aforesaid.

By order, D. L. JACOB, clk.
Which was read.

A petition from Thomas Butt, of Prince-George's county, praying that the levy court of said county may be
directed to levy a sum of money for his support, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Woodward, Mr. Hall
and Mr. Callis, to consider and report thereon.

The supplement to an act, entitled, An act to alter the mode of collecting the county tax in Harford county,
was read the second time, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

The following message was read.

By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, December 5, 1806.
Gentlemen ef the Senate,

BELIEVING it to be expedient that the several parts of the constitution of this state should be collected
into one body, and brought into one entire view, and hoping it may meet with your approbation, we have there-
fore thought proper to appoint Mr. ———, Mr. ——— and Mr, —. —., to join such gentlemen as may be named
by you, to compose a joint committee for that purpose.

By order, J. BREWER, clk.

The house proceeded to ballot for a committee agreeably to said message; the ballots being deposited in the
ballot box, the gentlemen named to strike retired, and after sometime returned and reported, that Mr. Chap-
man, Mr. Shaaff and Mr. Sudler, were elected.

Which message being agreed to, was sent to the senate by the clerk.

The message from the senate relative to the appointment of a senator in the senate of the United States, was
read the second time and agreed to.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of. Montgomery county, praying that a road to be laid out in virtue of an
act, entitled, An act to open a road from Barnesville, in Montgomery county, to Zachariah Maccubbins's mill,
and thence to intersect the main road leading from Frederick town to George-town, at or near Log-town, passed
last session, may not be done at the expence of the county, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Carroll,
Mr. Watts, Mr. Selby, Mr. Darne and Mr. Hawkins, to consider and report thereon.

The following message was read, agreed to, and sent to the Senate by the clerk.

By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, December 5, 1805.
Gentlemen of the Senate,

WE have agreed to your message and resolution of the 3d instant, and propose immediately to go into the
election of a senator to represent this state in the congress of the United States, after the third of March next,
until the 4th of March, 1813. Philip Reid and Richard T. Earle, Esquires, are put in nomination by this