122 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1807.

Mr. W. H. Brown, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act extending the powers
of several persons, late sheriffs and collectors in the respective counties in this state; which was read the first
and second time by especial order, and the question put, Shall the said bill pass? Determined in the negative.

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, A supplement to an act, entitled, An act to incorporate
a company for erecting a bridge over Chester river. ORDERED, That Mr. Sudler, Mr. Harryman and Mr
Spencer, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.

Mr. Sudler, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the said bill, which was read the first and second
time by especial order, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

The clerk of the senate delivers the resolution relative to forwarding the militia law to each member, the re-
solution in favour of John Sullivan, messenger to the court of chancery, the resolution in favour of Frederick
and Samuel Green, severally endorsed, "assented to. " 'The resolution in favour of Bennett Hamilton and
Charles Sewell, endorsed, " assented to with the proposed amendment; " which amendment was read and assented
to. The resolution in favour of John Kilty, Esquire, endorsed, "dissented from. " And the following message:

By the SENATE. January 20, 1808.
Gentlemen ef the House of Delegates,

WE received your message this morning, and are ready to proceed to the election of directors on the part of
the state in the several banks therein mentioned. We have appointed Mr. Covington and Mr. Williams to join
the gentlemen nominated by you to count the ballot. No persons are put in nomination by the senate in addi-
tion to those named in your message,

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

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

By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, January 20, 1808.
Gentlemen of the Senate,

HAVING nearly finished all the business of the session, we propose, with your concurrence, to rise this
evening.

By order, J. BREWER, clk.

The house proceeded to ballot for directors on the part of this state in the Farmers Bank, Mechanics Bank,
and Hagar's-town Bank; the ballots being deposited in the ballot box, the gentlemen named to strike retired,
and after sometime returned and reported, that for the Farmers Bank John Sprigg Belt and David Kerr, junior,
were elected, for the Mechanics Bank Tobias E. Stansbury and Peter Little were elected, and for the Hagar's-
town Bank John Bowles was elected. Whereupon

RESOLVED, That John Sprigg Belt and David Kerr, junior, be directors in the Farmers Bank of Maryland,
that Tobias E. Stansbury and Peter Little be directors in the Mechanics Bank of Baltimore, and that John
Bowles be a director in the Hagar's-town Bank, on the part of this state, for the. ensuing year.

The engrossed bills from No. 85 to 132, inclusive, were read, assented to, and, with the paper bills thereof,
sent to the senate by the clerk.

The question was put, That the house adjourn until five o'clock P. M.? The yeas and nays being required,
appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Gardiner, Grahame, C. Dorsey, Stevens, Frazier, Hall, Shaaff. Boon,
Belt, Reynolds, Green, Winder, Henry, Callis, Holbrook, Bowles,
C. D Hodges, Stone, Kerr, Dennis, Page, Muir, Jump, T abbs. 25.
Blake,

NEGATIVE.

W. H. Brown, O. Williams, Little, Mitchell, Porter, Sadler, Forwood, Bruce,
Welch, Emerson, Harryman, Cox, B. Hodges, J. Williams, Steuart, Greenwell. 23.
Brice, Rogerson, Seth, T. Moffit, J. E Spencer, Robins, Ray,

So it was resolved in the affirmative.

The house adjourns until five o'clock P. M

FIVE, P. M

THE house met.
The clerk of the senate delivers the engrossed bills from No. 41 to 134, inclusive, and from No. 140 to 151,
inclusive, endorsed, " assented to. " The bill to establish a board of agriculture in the several counties therein
mentioned, the bill to fix and establish the pay of the adjutant-general and brigade inspectors, and the supple-
ment to the act, entitled, An act to incorporate a company for erecting a bridge over Chester river, at. Chester-
town, severally endorsed, "will pass. " Ordered to be engrossed. The resolution relative to militia officers
bonding for arms, the resolution relative to the purchase of arms, severally endorsed, " assented to. " And
the following message:

By the SENATE, January 20, 1808.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates,
WE have, upon reconsideration, rejected the bill sent to us from your house, entitled, An act to prevent for

a limitted time the sale of lands or tenements, goods or chattels, on writs of execution, and for other purposes