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further additional supplementary act to the act entitled, An act for quieting possessions, enrolling conveyances,
and securing the estates, of purchasers, endorsed, "will pass with the proposed amendments; " which amend-
ments were read. A bill, entitled, An act for the limitation of appeals and writs of error, endorsed, " will
pass; " which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table. The resolution in favour of Elizabeth
Barrow, endorsed, " assented to. " And the following message:

By the SENATE, January 16, 1808.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates,

WE have nearly finished all the business now before us, and by a diligent application of our time shall cer-
tainly be prepared to close the present session by Monday next. We therefore propose, with the concurrence
of 'our house, to adjourn on that day.

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

The following order was read.

ORDERED, That the house of delegates, when they do adjourn to-day, adjourn until to-morrow morning at
nine o'clock, at which hour the punctual attendance of the members is required.

And the question put, That the house assent to the same? Determined in the negative.

The house proceeded to the second reading of the resolution relative to the investment of money in the banks
and turnpike road, and, on motion, That the blank after the words " Mechanics Bank of Baltimore" be filled
up with the words " forty thousand dollars?" the question was put, That the further consideration of the same
be postponed until Monday? Resolved in the affirmative.

The house adjourns until Monday morning 9 o'clock, -

MONDAY, January 18, 1808.

THE house met. Present the same members as on Saturday. The speaker appears and resumes the chair.
The proceedings of Saturday were read.

The bill to prevent for a limitted time the sale of lands or tenements, goods or chattels, on writs of execu-
tion, and for other purposes therein mentioned, the further additional supplement to the act, entitled, An act
to erect Baltimore-town, in. Baltimore county, into a city, and to incorporate the inhabitants thereof, and the
resolution in favour of Bennett Hamilton and Charles Sewell, were sent to the senate by the clerk.

The resolution in favour of John Smith Brookes was read the second time, and the question put, That the
whole of the resolution from the word " case" be stricken out? Resolved in the affirmative.

The question was then put, That the house assent to the said resolution? Determined in the negative.

The following resolutions were read..

Whereas it is represented to this general assembly, that some nefarious villain did, on the eighteenth day of
October, in the year eighteen hundred and seven, attempt to assassinate Judge James B. Robins, on his return
from Caroline county court, near Denton: And whereas it is stated, that there appears reason to believe that
the said assassin is a certain John Whirlow, alias John Rigging, formerly committed to Worcester county gaol
by said judge Robins, to answer a certain crime and whereas it is also represented, that the governor of Ma-
ryland has issued a proclamation, and offered a reward of five hundred dollars for the apprehension of the said
John Whirlow, alias John Rigging, and that the said judge Robins has expended a large sum of money in at-
tempting to arrest the said John Whirlow, alias John Rigging; and as it is reasonable and just that all the money
expended by the said Judge Robins, in his attempt to arrest the said John Whirlow, should be refunded by the
state; therefore, RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the eastern shore be and he is hereby authorised, to pay to
the order of the governor and council, any sum of money in favour of the said Judge Robins, not exceeding five
hundred dollars, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury of the eastern shore.

RESOLVED, That the governor and council be authorised and required to ascertain the sum or sums of money
paid by the said Judge Robins in attempting to have the said John Whirlow arrested, and to draw in his favour
an order on the treasurer of the eastern shore for the same.

The following resolution was read.

RESOLVED, That such officers of the militia as heretofore may have bonded to the state of Maryland for the
safe keeping and re-delivery of any arms put into their hands, and who now or hereafter may be out of commis-
sion, may call upon the executive and have the said bond delivered up to them, upon presenting to the executive
the bond of the officer appointed and filling his place, with security to be approved of by the said executive; and
where any arms bonded for as aforesaid, may have been destroyed by fire or other unavoidable accident, the
same shall be credited upon said bond on the parties producing to the executive satisfactory evidence that a cer-
tain number of arms have been so destroyed or lost.

Mr. Kerr, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the report of the committee on the memorial of Ni-
cholas Brewer, register in chancery, as amended; which was read.

The speaker laid before the house a letter from John Linthicum, Esquire, resigning his seat in this house;
which was read.