50 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1807.

case of an actual invasion of the state, or when general military law is declared. " Resolved in the affirma-
tive.

The question was then put, That the following be added to the 10th section? " and the said regents, when
duly assembled, shall have full power and authority to make their own rules of proceeding, and to make fundamen-
tal ordinances for the government and discipline of the said college, and to appoint the necessary officers of the
same, in ail which meetings a majority of the whole number of regents shall be a quorum to do any business,
except to vacate the seat of a president, professor or lecturer, for which purpose the consent of two thirds of
the whole number of regents shall be necessary. " Resolved in the affirmative.

On motion, That the following clause be added to said bill? viz. " And be it enacted, That the said medical
college and St. Mary's college, in the city or precincts of Baltimore, shall have full power and authority, by
mutual consent, to form themselves into one university, to be known for ever by the name of Saint-Mary's Uni-
versity, in the city or precincts of Baltimore, and by the consent of each college, to make regulations and or-
dinances for the government of the whole, and also to admit any other college or colleges established, or to be
established, by the general assembly of Maryland, into the said university, " the question was put, That the
further consideration of the same be postponed? Resolved in the affirmative.
The house adjourns until to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.

TUESDAY, December 8, 1807.

THE house met. Present the same members as on yesterday, except Mr. Stevens, Mr. P. Spencer and
Mr. Streett. The proceedings of yesterday were read.

Mr. Little, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to lay out and make a public
road in Baltimore county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

The bill for the relief of Mary Gwinn, of Frederick county, the message requesting a reconsideration of the
same, and the resolution in favour of Jeremiah T. Chase, were sent to the senate by the clerk.

The house resumed the consideration of the bill for founding a medical college in the city or precincts of Bal-
timore, for the instruction of students in the different branches of medicine, and, on motion, leave was given
to withdraw the amendment proposed, uniting said college with Saint-Mary's college.

The question was then put, That the house. reconsider the said bill? Resolved in the affirmative.

The question was then put, That the word. " regents" be stricken out? Determined in the negative.

The bill being read throughout the question was put, Shall the said bill pass? Resolved in the affirmative;
which bill was sent to the senate by the clerk.

The clerk of the senate delivers the bill to extend Centre-street, in the northern precincts of the city of Bal-
timore, and to build a bridge, therein across Jone's Falls, the bill to make valid the will of Arthur M'Dade,
late of Caecil county, deceased, endorsed, "will pass. " Ordered to be engrossed. And the bill authorising
Benjamin Ray, late sheriff and collector of Montgomery county, to complete his collection, endorsed, " will
pass with the proposed amendments; " which amendments were read.

The bill to authorise the drawing of a lottery within the city of Baltimore for the purpose therein mention-
ed, was read the second time, passed, and. sent to the senate by the clerk.

A petition from Margaret and Harriet Hammond, of Baltimore county, graying an alteration in the law pass-
ed in the year 1803, for building a bridge over Hammond's ferry, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Lit-
tle, Mr. C. Dorsey, Mr. Steuart, Mr. Belt and Mr. Harryman, to consider and report thereon.

The bill authorising a lottery for raising a sum of money for the purposes therein mentioned, was read the
second time, passed, and sent to the senate by the deck.

On motion, ORDERED, That the report on the petition of Evan Willing be withdrawn.
Mr. Winder, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the following report:

THE. committee to whom was referred the petition ef Evan Willing, of Somerset county, having taken it
into consideration, report, that by the act of assembly of 1751, chap. 14, sec. 9, provision is made for the pay-
ment of any runaway slave that may be. slain by any person in pursuit of him; that the negro mentioned in the
petition was a runaway, and that at Snow-Hill, when pursued by sundry persons, he ran into the river to avoid
being apprehended, and in consequence of this pursuit was drowned. The committee are of opinion that this
case comes completely within the spirit of the law; that no distinction ought to be made as to the manner of the
death, provided it was in consequence of the pursuit, the consequence was the same to the owner, and he is
therefore entitled to the remuneration contemplated by the law, for which the committee submit the fallowing
resolution:

RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore pay to Evan Willing, the sum of one hundred pounds,
for a negro slave who was drowned in consequence of his being pursued as a runaway.

All which is submitted.

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

A petition from John Swan, counter to the petition of William Gwynn, of the city of Baltimore, was pre-
ferred, read, and referred to the committee appointed on the petition to which it is counter.