6 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1807.

30. Oh an election to any office of trust or profit, no ballot shall be counted unless the person; for whom the
ballot shall be given be named to the house before the balloting be gone into.

31. All the members present shall divide on every question, unless excused by the house, or on calling the
yeas and nays his refusal shall be noted on the journal at the request of any member.

32. Whenever a motion shall be made, or question propounded to the house, and not Seconded, no other bu-
siness shall be received until the speaker shall inform the house that the motion or proposition first made is not
seconded.

33. No motion for reconsideration shall be permitted, unless made and seconded by two members who were
in the majority on the original question.

34. When a blank is to be filled up, and different sums, numbers or times, shall be proposed, the question.
shall be first taken on the largest sum or number, and on the latest time.

35. When the house adjourns, every member shall rise in his place, and remain until the speaker go forth.

36. Every committee shall have leave to report by bill or otherwise.

37. When the house are equally divided on any question, the same shall be decided.. by. the speaker

Which was read the first and second time by especial order, and the first thirty-six rules therein contained,
assented to.

The question was then put, That the house assent to the thirty-seventh rule? Resolved in the affirmative.

ORDERED, That the printer to the state be and he is hereby directed to print one hundred copies of every
bill, resolution and report, containing subjects of a public nature, which shall be read by the. clerk during he
present session, also of all official papers, for the use of the members.

ORDERED, That the reports of the auditor-general and trustee of. the state be referred to the committee
of claims.

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning in this state.

The house proceeded to ballot for a committee to prepare and bring in the same; and the ballots being depo-
sited in the ballot box, the gentlemen named to strike retired, and after sometime returned and reported, that
Mr. W. H. Brown, Mr. Little, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. T. B. Dorsey, Mr. Holbrook, Mr. Kuhn. and Mr.. Kerr,

were elected.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Baltimore county, praying for a public road from Monkton mills until
it intersects the York turnpike road, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Little, Mr. Harryman and Mr.
M. Brown, to consider and report thereon.

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled,. An act to settle and ascertain the salary of the members
of the council for the ensuing year. ORDERED, That Mr. Kerr, Mr. Forwood and Mr. Briscoe, be a commit-
tee to prepare and bring in the same.

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, An act to increase the salary of the chief judge of the
sixth judicial district. ORDERED, That Mr. T. Dorsey, Mr. Shaaff and Mr. Davis, be a committee to prepare
and bring in the same.

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, An act to regulate and discipline the militia of this state,,
and the house proceeded to ballot for a committee to prepare and bring in the same; the ballots being deposited
in the ballot box, the gentlemen named to strike retired, and after sometime returned and reported, that Mr,
Little, Mr. Belt, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Jump, Mr. T. Dorsey, Mr. Streett and Mr. O. Williams, were elected.

A petition from Monica Greenwell, administratrix of Robert Manning, praying a compensation for deficiency
found in land purchased of the state and paid for by said Manning, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. W.
H. Brown, Mr. Shaaff and Mr. C. Dorsey, to consider and report thereon.

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

THE committee of elections and privileges report, that they have inspected the ret. urns of the judges of
ejections for the several counties, and for the city of Baltimore, and of the mayor and aldermen of the city of;
Annapolis, and find, that by the said returns the following persons are elected, declared and duly re. turned, as
members of the house of delegates, to wit: For Saint-Mary's county, William H. Brown, Thomas Blakistone,
Thomas Gardiner and James Hopewell, Esquires; for Kent county, William Moffitt, John Gale, James Welch
and Richard Brice, Esquires; far Anne-Arundel county, John S. Belt, Charles D. Hodges, Osborn Williams,
and Richard Merriken, Esquires for Calvert county, Richard Grahame, Thomas Blake, Peter Emerson and
Thomas Reynolds. Esquires; for diaries county, Robert Couden Stone Clement Dorsey, Joseph Green and
Thomas Rogerson, Esquires; for Baltimore county, Peter Little, Tobias E. Stansbury, George Harryman and
Moses Brown, Esquires; for Talbot. county, David Kerr, junior, Perry Spencer, William E. Seth and Samuel
Stevens, junior. Esquires; for Somerset county, John Gale, George W. Jackson, Levin Winder and Robert J.
King. Esquires; for Dorchester county, Robert Dennis, Joseph Ennalls, Solomon Frazier and Hugh Henry,,
Esquires; for Caecil county, George E, Mitchell, John J. Cox, Thomas Moffit and. James L. Porter, Esquires;
for Prince-George's county, George Page, Francis M. Hall, Henry A. Callis and Benjamin Hodges, Esquires;
for the city of Annapolis, John Muir and Arthur Shaaff, Esquires; for Queen-Anne's county, John E. Spencer,.
William Sudler, John Brown and William Gleaves, Esquires; for Worcester county, John Williams, Zadock,
Sturgis, Edward Robins and John Dashiell, Esquires; for Frederick county, Benjamin Biggs, Thomas Hawkins,
Henry Kuhn and David Shriver, junior, Esquires; for Harford county, John Forwood, John Streett, Thomas.