106 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1807;

repairing Saint-George's church on Deer Creek, in Harford county, the bill to correct a mistake in the begin-
ning of lot number twenty-two in the town of Vienna, in Dorchester county, the bill for the relief of Benjamin
Morris, of Baltimore county, the supplement to the act, entitled, An act for the benefit of Margaretta Chal-
mers, the supplement to the act, entitled, An act to incorporate the Charitable Marine Society of Baltimore,
the bill to appoint and authorise commissioners to review and lay out the road therein mentioned in Harford
county, the bill to continue certain acts of assembly, the bill for the relief of Jonathan Edwards and Gilbert
Middleton, of the city of Baltimore, the bill for the relief of George Gray, of Calvert county, the bill to
enable Margaret Hammond ami Harriet Hammond, of Baltimore county, to erect a bridge across Patapsco river,
at a place called Hammond's Ferry, and the supplement to the act, entitled, An act to amend and explain the.
thirty-third section of an act, entitled, An act for the more effectual paving the streets of Baltimore-town, in
Baltimore county, severally endorsed, " will pass. " Ordered to be engrossed. The bill relative to writs of
capias ad satisfaciendum, the bill to prevent the anchoring of vessels in the fisheries in Susquehanna river, and
at the head of the Chesapeake bay, the further supplement to the act, entitled, An act for the regulation and
improvement of Denton, in Caroline county, the bill to lay out and open a straight road from Ferguson Smith's
to Marley Mills, in Caecil county, and the bill to regulate and discipline the militia of this state, severally en-
dorsed, " will pass. with the proposed amendments; " which amendments were read the first and second time by
especial order, agreed to, and the bills ordered to be engrossed. The bill authorising William Moffitt, of Kent
county, to complete his collection, endorsed, ''will pass with the proposed amendment?" which amendment was
read. And the following resolutions:

By the SENATE, January 9, 1808.

RESOLVED, That from and after the present session of assembly, no private act, nor any bill for laying out
any new road, or for altering and extending any old road, in this state, shall pass the legislature upon any peti-
tion or application whatever, unless notice be given by the petitioners, or other applicants, in some news-paper
printed in the county where the petitioner resides, if of a personal nature, or in the county where the road
proposed will run, if respecting a road, provided there be a news-paper published in that county, and if there
be no news-paper, printed in such county, then in some news-paper printed in Baltimore city, unless the petiti-
oner resides on the eastern shore of Maryland, or the road proposed be on the eastern shore, in either of which
cases, the paper printed at Easton shall be used instead of a paper printed in Baltimore city, for four successive
weeks, and by advertising at the court-house door of the county where such petitioner or applicants reside, at
least four weeks before such petition or application be made to the general assembly, that a petition is intended
to be preferred, mentioning in such notice the substance of such petition; and that evidence of the notice be
produced upon hearing such petition.

RESOLVED, That the executive of this state, in order to give public notice of the above resolution, cause the
same to be published in such news-papers of this state as they think best calculated for that purpose.

By order, T. ROGERS, clk.
Which were read.

Mr. Little, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, "An act annulling the marriage of
Susanna Beamer and Frederick Beamer, of Baltimore county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie
on the table.

The bill to incorporate the New Market fire company in the precincts of Baltimore, was read the second time
by especial order and passed.

The house, according to the order of the day, proceeded to the second reading of the bill to prevent for a
limitted time" the sale of lands or tenements, goods or chattels, on writs of execution, and for other purpose
therein mentioned, and the question was put, That the further consideration of the same be referred to the first
day of June next? The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messieurs Little, Harryman, T. Dorsey. 5.

NEGATIVE.

W. H. Brown, O. Williams, Rogerson, Dennis, Page, Dashiell, Bayard, Darne,
Blakistone, Merriken, M Brown, Ennalls, Hall, Hawkins, Jump, Ray,
Gardiner, Emerson, Kerr, Frazier, Callis, Forwood, Boon, Linthicum,
W. Moffitt, Grahame, Seth, Henry, B. Hodges, Streett Bowles, Tomlinson,
Welch, Reynolds, Stevens, Mitchell, Muir, Ayres, Schnebly, Greenwell,
Belt, Stone, Winder, T. Moffit, J. E. Spencer, Davis, Gabby, Briscoe. 55.

C D. Hodges, C Dorsey, King, Porter, Sudler, Holbrook, Carroll,
So it was determined in the negative.

On progression in reading the same, the question was put, That the following clause be stricken out? to wit:
" Be it enacted, by the general assembly of Maryland, That during the continuance of the present embargo,
and for ninety days after the expiration of the same, no lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, or
estates for life, shall be sold on any writ of execution, or by any process from chancery, or courts of common
law having chancery jurisdiction, except with the consent of the defendant or defendants in such writ of execu-
tion mentioned; provided always, That in all those cases where execution is now levied, or hereafter shall be
levied, on any goods or chattels, that the plaintiff or plaintiffs may direct the sheriff, or other legal officer to
whom the writ of execution was or shall be directed, to sell the same, and the sheriff or other proper officer, a