26 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1807.

The supplement to an act, entitled, An act relating to the public roads in the several counties therein menti-
oned, was read the second time, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

A memorial from Jeremiah T. Chase, chief judge of the third judicial district of this state, praying a compen-
sation for his services in the capacity of chancellor, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Shaaff. Mr. W.
H. Brown and Mr. T. Dorsey, to consider and report thereon.

Mr. Sturgis, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, A further supplement to the act,
entitled, An act for appointing a wreckmaster in Worcester county; which was read the first time and ordered
to lie on the table.

The bill authorising a lottery to raise a sum of money for the purpose of finishing the steeple of Saint-John's
church, in Elizabeth-town, in Washington county, and for other purposes, was read the second time, passed,
and sent to the senate by the clerk.

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

THE committee to whom was referred the memorial of Jeremiah Townley Chase, of the city of Annapolis,
report, that they have taken the same into consideration, and are of opinion that the prayer of the memorial
ought to be granted; the committee therefore submit the following resolution:

RESOLVED, That the chancellor be and he is hereby authorised and empowered, for and on behalf of this
state, to convey unto Samuel Chase and Jeremiah Townley Chase, as tenants in common, in fee, two undivided
third parts of all that property on Whetstone Point, in Baltimore county, late the property of the Principio
company, purchased by Samuel Chase, Jeremiah Townley Chase and Luther Martin, from the commissioners
who were appointed for the preservation and sale of confiscated British property, according to the description
contained in the certificates thereof, now remaining in the land-office for the western shore; the said property
being described by lot No. 10, lot No. 11 and lot No. 12.

All which is submitted.

By order, D. L. JACOB, clk.
Which was read.

The bill authorising a lottery to raise a sum of money for the purpose of building a bridge over the river Mo-
nocacy, in Frederick county, was read the second time, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

Mr. Biggs, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to punish blasphemers, swear-
ers, drunkards and sabbath-breakers, and for repealing the laws heretofore made for the punishing such offend-
ers; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

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

THE committee to whom was referred the petition of Robert Couden Stone, on behalf of himself and Eliza
Stone, Anne Stone and Thomas Stone, children of John H. Stone, Esquire, late deceased, report, that they
have considered the same, and are of opinion that relief should be granted them agreeably to the following reso-
lution, which they submit.

Whereas it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Robert Couden Stone, on behalf of
himself, and Eliza Stone, Anne Stone and Thomas Stone, children of John H. Stone, Esquire, late deceased,
that the said John H. Stone has paid into the treasury of the western shore the sum of thirteen hundred and
sixty pounds and two-pence, for proclamation land warrants obtained under an act of assembly, passed at No-
vember session, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, chapter eighty-eight, and that, by the operation of an act
of assembly, passed at November session, eighteen hundred and four, chapter seventy-five, all the land, so as
aforesaid proclamated, reverted to the state, in consequence of the said John H. Stone having failed to pay the
full composition required on the same, by a payment of which a title to the said land might have been se-
cured to himself or to his children: And whereas the. said petitioners have prayed, that the sum of money, so
paid into the treasury, should be refunded, or some other relief granted as might seem reasonable and proper,
so that they might be benefitted by the payment aforesaid; and this general assembly, finding the facts there-
in to be correctly stated, and willing to gratify the prayer of the said petitioners, so far as to grant to them
land warrants in Allegany county to the amount of the sum so as aforesaid paid into the treasury as composition
money on the said land; therefore RESOLVED, That the register of the land-office of the western shore be and
he is hereby authorised and directed to grant to the said Robert Couden Stone, Eliza Stone, Anne Stone and
Thomas Stone, children of John H. Stone, Esquire, deceased, as tenants in common, with power to transfer
the same, a warrant or warrants for ten thousand eight hundred and eighty acres of land in Allegany county,
upon the said Robert Couden Stone, Anne Stone, Eliza Stone and Thomas Stone, paying to the said register
the fees of office for the same.

By order, G. WINCHESTER, clk.
Which was read.

The further supplement to the act, entitled, An act for appointing a wreckmaster in Worcester county, was
read the second time by especial order and passed.

Mr. T. Dorsey, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act for founding a medical

college in the city or precincts of Baltimore, for the instruction of students in the different branches of medicine;

which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
The bill for the relief of John Burgoyne, of Caecil county, was read the second time and passed.