70 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1806.

to repeal the acts of assembly therein mentioned, the further supplement to the act, entitled, An act to lay out
and make public road from the Black House, in Harford county to the Pennsylvania line, the bill to enable
the. trustees of the Roman catholic church in the city of Baltimore to purchase a piece of ground therein men-
tioned, the bill to lay out and open a road in Washington county, the bill to alter, change and amend, a road in
Anne-Arundel county, the bill to enlarge the power of the trustees of the poor of Montgomery county, and
the bill for the relief of the representatives of George Sharky, of Washington county, severally endorsed
' will pass. " Ordered to be engrossed. The bill supplementary to the act, entitled, An act to provide for the
organization and regulation of the courts of common law in this state, and for the administration of justice
therein, endorsed " will pass with the proposed amendments; " which amendments were read the first and se-
cond time by especial order, agreed to, and the bill ordered to he engrossed. And the bill for the benefit of
Thomas Hodges and Eleanor Hodges, the infant children of James Hodges, late of Prince-George's county,
deceased, endorsed "will not pass. "

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

THE committee to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Nicholls, of Simon, of Montgomery county,
report, that they have taken the same into consideration, and find, from the vouchers exhibitted, that the said
Nicholls purchased for William Marbury, agent to the state of Maryland, two hundred and fifty acres of land,
lying and being in Montgomery county, at thirty-six shillings per acre, and from, an agreement made with the.
agent, it was stipulated that an accurate survey of the aforesaid lands should be made by said agent, and not at
the cost and charge of the purchaser. Your committee are of opinion, that from the agreement on the part of
the state's agent, that said Nicholls ought to be reimbursed the expences, of surveying the. land aforesaid; they
therefore recommend the following resolution:

RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore be and he is hereby directed to pay to Thomas Nicholls,
of Simon, or his order, the sum of twenty-nine pounds five shillings current money, being the actual expence
incurred and paid by said Nicholls, in surveying, and ascertaining the quantity of land aforesaid.

By order,. N. MARTIN, clk.

Which was read.

ORDERED, That the printer to the state furnish each justice of the levy court, who are not justices of the
orphans court or justices of the peace, with a copy of the acts of assembly of the present session.

The house proceeded to the second reading of the supplement to an act to reduce into one the several acts of
assembly respecting elections, and to regulate said elections, and, on progression, the question was put, That
the blank in the last clause, allowing a compensation to the judges and clerks of election, be filled up with the
Words " two dollars ?" The yeas and nays being; required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Gardiner, Lyles, Harryman, J. Brown,. Kuhn, Jump, Watts, Briscoe.
Blakistone, Parnham, Kerr, Biggs, Street, Aisquith, Darne, Beall,
Frisby, Little, Martin, Waters, Keene, Schnebly, Bruce, Rizer. 34.

NEGATIVE.

Pearce, M'Pherson. Frazier, Porter, Woodward, Bishop Forwood. Turpin,

Belt, Denny, Ward, Moffit, Sudler, Dashiell, Davis, Carroll,

Williams, King, Dennis, Mitchell, Downes, Hawkins, Bayard, Selby. 29.

C. D. Hodges, Smoot, Cox, Callis, Sturgis,

So it was determined in the negative.

The question was then put on " four dollars. " Resolved in the affirmative.

The question was then put, That the said bill be referred to the first day of June next? Resolved in the affir-
mative.

The bill supplementary to the act for erecting a town in Talbot county, and to the act for the regulation and.
improvement of Easton, was read the second time, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

Mr. W. H. Brown, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to continue certain
acts of assembly; which was read the first and second time by especial order, passed, and sent to the senate by
the clerk.

The bill to condemn a piece of ground in Kent county for the purposes therein mentioned, was read the se-

cond time, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, An act to alter the time of holding the court of appeals,
and for other purposes. ORDERED, That Mr. Frisby, Mr. Shaaff, Mr. Davis, Mr. W H. Brown and Mr,
Pearce, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.

On motion. Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, An act respecting vagrants within the city of Baltimore,
and the precincts thereof. ORDERED, That Mr. R. Steuart, Mr. W. H. Brown, Mr. Aisquith, Mr. Little and

Mr. M'Pherson, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.

Mr. Ward, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to provide for the appoint-
ment of commissioners for the regulation and improvement of Cambridge, in Dorchester county, and to esta-
blish and regulate a market in said town; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

The bill to lay out and open an old road in Harford county, was read the second time, passed, and sent to
the senate by the clerk.

The bill relating to orphans, was read the second time, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.