VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1806. 53

A petition from the president and directors of the Baltimore and Reister's-town turnpike company, counter

to the petition of Richard Caton, and others, was preferred, read, and referred to the committee appointed on
the petition to which it is counter.

A petition from Joseph Howard, and others, praying that a sum of money deposited in the treasury by Brice
Howard, for the use of the firm of Joseph Howard and Company, may be paid to them, was preferred, read
and referred to Mr. Merriken, Mr. Shaaff and Mr. Belt, to consider and report thereon.

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, An act to provide for the trial of certain causes depend-
ing in the court of appeals, and for other purposes. ORDERED, That Mr. Frisby, Mr. W. H. Brown, Mr.
Shaaff, Mr. Sudler and Mr. Davis, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, A supplement to an act, entitled, An act to provide for
the appointment of commissioners for the regulation and improvement of Cambridge, in Dorchester county,
and to establish and regulate a market in said town. ORDERED, That Mr. Ward, Mr. Smoot, Mr. Frazier,
Mr. Dennis and Mr. Watts, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.

The clerk of the senate delivers the resolutions relative to the importation of slaves, endorsed " assented to. "
The bill for the benefit of John Munickhuysen, and others, endorsed " will pass. " Ordered to be engrossed..
And the bill to prevent the going at large of swine in the village of Hillsborough, in Caroline county, and for
ther purposes, endorsed " will pass with the proposed amendments; " which amendments were read the first
and second time by especial order, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.

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

THE committee to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel Chase, Esquire, late agent for the recovery
of the stock in the bank of England claimed by this state, dated the twenty-fourth day of November, eighteen
hundred and six, report, that they have taken the same under their consideration, and have examined the laws,
resolutions, and the other proceedings referred to in the said memorial, and have likewise examined the different
evidences and vouchers produced by the memorialist in support of the payment of the several sums alleged by
the memorialist to have been laid out in paying the expences alluded to in the condition of his bond, executed
to the state by himself, together with Allen Quynn and Jeremiah Townley Chase, Esquires, his securities, dated
the twenty-seventh day of April, seventeen hundred and eighty-five.

The committee further report, that it appears, from satisfactory evidence offered by the memorialist, that he
paid, according to the condition of the bond aforesaid, to William Lyon, his solicitor in the high court of chan-
cery of Great-Britain, for his bill of costs and expences incurred for prosecuting and defending suits in the said
court on behalf of this state, from April, seventeen hundred and eighty-three, to December, eighteen hundred
and one, the sum of two hundred and forty pounds one shilling and nine-pence sterling, to wit: Fifty pounds
sterling on the thirteenth day of April, seventeen hundred and eighty-six, six pounds sterling on the eighth,
day of May, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, and one hundred and sixty-seven pounds five shillings and
nine-pence sterling on the twenty-first day of October, seventeen hundred and ninety-six, and sixteen pounds
sixteen shillings sterling on the tenth of December, eighteen hundred and one.

The committee further report, that the sum of three hundred and fifty pounds sterling was directed to be de-.
ducted out of the said bond, by authority of the resolution of November session, seventeen hundred and ninety,
which was accordingly done by the treasurer of the western shore on the twenty-seventh day of December, se-
venteen hundred and ninety, as appears by his endorsement on the said bond, by which said deduction and se-
veral payments the sum of money mentioned in the condition of the said bond hath been fully discharged, and
the bond hath been overpaid by the memorialist in the sum of ninety pounds one shilling and nine-pence ster-
ling money.

The committee are therefore of opinion, that the condition of the said bond hath been legally complied with,
and the same ought to be delivered up to the memorialist; and they submit the following resolutions for the
consideration of the house.

RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore be authorised, and he is hereby directed, to give credit
to Samnel Chase, Esquire, late agent for the recovery of the stock in the bank of England, claimed by this
state, for the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds sterling, upon his bond executed to the state by himself,
together with Allen Quynn and Jeremiah Townley Chase, Esquires, bis securities, dated the twenty-seventh
day of April, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, conditioned for the application of the sum of five hundred
pounds sterling, in the manner expressed in the condition of the said bond, the aforesaid sum of one hundred
and fifty pounds sterling, being the balance due upon the said bond.

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the treasurer of the western shore be and he is hereby authorised and directed t.
deliver up to the said Samuel Chase, Esquire, or to his order, the bond aforesaid.

By order, L. GASSAWAY, clk.

Which was read.

Mr. Shaaff, from the committee, also delivers to the speaker the following report
THE committee to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel Chase, Esquire, late agent for the recovery
of the stock in the Bank of England, dated the twenty-sixth day of November, eighteen hundred and six, re-
port, that they have taken the same under their consideration, and have examined the laws, resolutions, and
the other proceedings referred to in the said memorial, and have likewise examined the different evidences an