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tobacco, can in their judgment be made on such land or lands as he or she may have in cultivation during that
year, and the said justice of the peace may grant a certificate authorising the said negro to sell the quantity spe-
cified in the said certificate of the neighbours, and no more; and each and every person purchasing of the said
negro wheat, corn or tobacco, shall endorse upon the certificate authorising the said negro to sell the same, the
quantity purchased, under the penalty of five dollars for each and every neglect to make such endorsement. "
Resolved in the affirmative.

On motion, the question was then put, That the said bill be postponed for further consideration? Resolved
in the affirmative.

The clerk of the senate delivers the bill, entitled, An act directing the register of wills for Baltimore county
to deliver over to the persons therein named the last will and testament of Robert Burney, endorsed, " will
pass. " Ordered to be engrossed. Also the resolution in favour of John Trueman, endorsed, " dissented from. "
With the following message:

By the SENATE, November 23, 1807.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegate,

WE have dissented from your resolution in favour of John Trueman. If your house will originate a resolu-
tion, giving to him the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, and the like sum to the widow of Edward Roberts,
late messenger of the senate, to be applied by her to the support and maintenance of herself and family, it will
meet our concurrence. It is represented to us, that the said Edward Roberts was a brave and most meritorious
soldier during the revolutionary war. The members of the senate, acquainted with his services as their late
officer, bear ample testimony to his attentive and faithful discharge of his duties as their messenger, and his
family are left in a very indigent and destitute situation.

By order, T. ROGERS, clk.

Which was read.
Also the following message:

By the SENATE, November 23, 1807.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates

WE agree to your proposition for a joint committee of both branches of the legislature on the subject of your
message of this day, and have appointed Mr. Partridge, Mr. Somervell and Mr. Lowrey, a committee on the
part of the senate, to join the gentlemen named by your house.

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

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, A further supplement to the act, entitled, An act to re-
gulate elections. ORDERED, That Mr. W. H. Brown, Mr. Hopewell and Mr. Gardiner, be a committee to pre-
pare and bring in the same.

The house adjourns until to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.

TUESDAY, November 24, 1807.

THE house met. Present the same members as on yesterday, except Mr. Kerr, Mr. P. Spencer, Mr. Boon,
Mr. Welch, Mr. Brice and Mr. W. Moffitt. The proceedings of yesterday were read.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Prince-George's county, praying that the road leading from the public
road between Queen-Anne and Upper-Marlborough, at Lansdale's Branch, down Patuxent river, may be made
public and kept in repair as other public roads in said county, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. B. Hodges,
Mr. Hall and Mr. Callis, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from a number of proprietors of lots situated on the north side of, and adjoining the city of Balti-
more, praying that the said lots may be annexed to, and incorporated as a part of said city, was preferred,
read, and referred to Mr. T. Dorsey, Mr. Harryman and Mr. Little, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from James West, of the city of Baltimore, praying a special act of insolvency, was preferred,
read, and referred to Mr. T. Dorsey, Mr. Little and Mr. Harryman, to consider and report thereon.

Mr. Little, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to extend Centre-street, in
the northern precincts of the city of Baltimore, and to build a bridge therein across Jones's Falls; which was
read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Tabbs, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act for the benefit of the vestry
of the German evangelic lutheran congregation in and about Elizabeth-town, at Saint John's church, in Wash-
ington county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. W. H. Brown, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, A further supplement to the
act, entitled. An act to regulate elections; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

The following order was ready.

ORDERED, That John Trueman, late a revolutionary officer, and now peculiarly distressed by want, be ap-
pointed assistant door-keeper to the house of delegates.

And the question was put, That the house assent to the same? The yeas and nays being required, appeared
as follow: