24 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1808.

read, and referred to Mr. Bland, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Dorsey, Mr. Stansbury and Mr. Davis, to consider and
report thereon.

A petition from Joshua Butler, of Worcester county, praying to be supported out of the poors house, was
preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Hayward, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bennett, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Worcester county, praying that the levy court of said county may be
authorised and directed to. levy a sum of money to reimburse them their expenses in opening a road from William
Davis's shop to Cornelius Ennis's landing, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Wilson, Mr. Hayward and
Mr. T. N. Williams, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Worcester county residing on the seaboard, praying for a road to the
navigable waters of the Atlantic, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Hayward, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Ben-
nett, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Caroline county, praying a law making such modifications in the insol-
vent laws of this state us shall place all the citizens thereof upon an equal footing with respect to the mode of
obtaining their discharge from debts, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Bayard, Mr. Bland, Mr. Tilgh-
man, Mr. Spencer and Mr. Young, to consider and report thereon.

Mr. Bayly, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act annulling the marriage of
John C. Hatton and Elizabeth Hutton, of Somerset county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on
the table.

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

By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, November 29, 1808.
Gentlemen of the Senate

IN consequence of the appointment of William Hayward, Esquire, late director on the part of this state in
the Branch of the Farmers Bank of Maryland at Easton, to the presidency of that institution, it becomes ne-
cessary, and we propose, with the concurrence of your honourable body, to go into an election, on Thursday
next at 12 o'clock, for a director to fill said vacancy; and to regulate said election we have adopted the following
resolution:

RESOLVED, That the director to be appointed on the part of this state in the Farmers Bank of Maryland be
elected by ballot, and shall be a resident of the town of Easton, or Talbot county, upon the eastern shore, and
that the person, resident as aforesaid, having a majority of ballots of all the attending members of both branches
of the legislature shall be a director of the Branch Bank of the said Farmers Bank of Maryland, and the person
having a majority of ballots as aforesaid, shall be declared duly elected as aforesaid.

John Kennard and Bennett Wheeler are put in nomination by this house, and Mr. Seth and Mr. Young are
appointed to join the gentlemen that may be appointed by you to examine the ballots.

By order, J. BREWER, clk.

A petition from Robert Couden Stone, and others, praying that money paid by their father in the treasury on
obtaining proclamation warrants for lands in Allegany county, and to which he never obtained a title, may be
refunded to them, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. P. Stuart, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Spencer, Mr. Sanders
and Mr. Gale, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Frederick county, praying for a road from the town of New-Market to
Johnson's mill where George Messcrop's blacksmith's shop stands, was preferred, read, and referred to the com-
mittee appointed on a petition of a similar nature.

The house, according to the order of the day, proceeded to the second reading of the further supplement to
the act, entitled, An act for regulating the mode of staying executions, and repealing the acts of assembly
therein mentioned, and for other purposes, and, on motion, the question was put, That the further considera-
tion of the same be postponed until Thursday next? Determined in the negative.

On progress: on in reading the same, the question was put, That the following words he stricken out of the
second clause thereof? viz. " and the said clerk or register to whom the same shall be transmitted shall, imme-
diately on filing the same, grant a certificate thereof, under the hand and seal of office, to the party applying
for the same, and such certificate shall be sufficient authority to the sheriff, coroner or constable, as the case
may be, to forbear serving the execution on the body, goods or chattels, lands or tenements, of the person so
obtaining such certificate. " Resolved in the affirmative.

The question was then put, That the following be inserted in lieu of the words stricken out? viz. " and the
said judge or justices, as the case may be, before whom such judgment shall be confessed, shall immediately on
taking the same grant a certificate thereof, under his or their hand and seal, to the party confessing the judge-
ment, and such certificate shall be sufficient authority to the sheriff, coroner or constable, as the case may be,
to forbear serving the execution on the body, goods or chattels, lands or tenements, of the person so obtaining
such certificate. " Resolved in the affirmative.

On further progression, the question was put, That the following clause be stricken out? viz.

And be it enacted, That as often as any creditor, or the executors or administrators of any such credits
shall conceive him or herself in danger of suffering from the insufficiency of any security so. as aforesaid to be
taken by virtue and under this act, he, she or they, may apply to the judge or justices before whom the said
confession was made, or in case of the death, removal, resignation or disqualification, of such judge or justices,