VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS.

TUESDAY, November 8, 1808.

MONDAY, the seventh instant, being the day appointed ty the constitution and form of government for the
meeting of the general assembly of this state, several members of this house accordingly met on that day,
but a sufficient number of members to proceed to business not appearing, the house adjourned until to-day,
when the following members appeared, viz.

For Saint-Mary's county.	Mr. William E. Seth.	Frederick county.
Mr, William Hebb,	Somerset county.	Mr. George Baer,
Mr. Henry Neale,	Mr. Thomas Bayly,	Mr. John H. Thomas,
Mr. Thomas Blakistone,	Mr. Levin Winder,	Mr. Francis B. Sappington
Mr. James Hopewell.	Mr. John Gale,	Mr. John Thomas.
Kent county	Mr. John Cottman.	Harford county.
Mr. Unit Angier,	Dorchester county.	Mr. John Forwood,
Mr. Richard Brice,	Mr. Solomon Frazier,	Mr. John Streett,
Mr. James Welch,	Mr. Robert Dennis,	Mr. John Sanders,
Mr.. William Moffitt.	Mr. Edward Griffith.	Mr. Elijah Davis.
Anne-Arundel county.	Cecil county.	Caroline county.
Mr. Charles D. Hodges,	Mr. George E. Mitchell,	Mr. Peregrine F. Bayard,
Mr. John S. Belt,	Mr. James L. Porter,	Mr. Peter Willis,
Mr. Osborn Williams,	Mr. Edward H. Veazey,	Mr. Richard Hughlett,
Mr. Richard Merriken.	Mr. Robert Hart.	Mr. John Young.
Calvert county. Mr. Thomas Reynolds, Mr. Thomas Blake,	Prince George's county. Mr. George Page, Mr. Charles S. Perrie,	City of Baltimore. Mr. Robert Steuart, Mr. Theodorick Bland.
Mr. Joseph Ireland, Mr. Richard Grahame.	Mr. John C. Herbert, Mr. Josias F. Beall.	Washington county. Mr. Frisby Tilghman,
Charles county. Mr. Philip Stuart, Mr. Henry H. Chapman, Mr. Clement Dorsey. Baltimore county. Mr. Tobias E. Stansbury, Mr. George Harryman, Mr. Beale Randall,	City of Annapolis, Mr. John Muir, Mr. James Boyle. Queen-Anne's county Mr. Daniel C. Hopper, Mr. John E. Spencer, Mr. Thomas Wright, of Solomon.	Mr. William Gabby, Mr. William Downey, Mr. John Bowles. Montgomery county. Mr. William Carroll, Mr. Henry C. Gaither, Mr. Samuel Thomas, junior, Mr. Hezekiah Veatch.
Mr. Moses Brown.	Worcester county	Allegany county.
Talbot county.	Mr. George Hayward,	Mr. Levi Hilleary,
Mr. Samuel Stevens, junior,	Mr. Ephraim K. Wilson,	Mr. William M'Mahon,
Mr. John Edmondson,	Mr. Thomas N. Williams,	Mr. Jesse Tomlinson,
Mr. David Kerr, junior,	Mr. Jesse Bennett.	Mr. John Reid.

A sufficient number of delegates being convened, they severally qualified in the presence of each other, by
taking the several oaths required by the constitution and form of government, by subscribing a declaration of
their belief in the Christian religion, and by taking, repeating and subscribing, the oath to support the consti-
tution of the United States.

The house proceeded to ballot for a speaker; the ballots being deposited in the ballot box, on examination
thereof it appeared, that Levin Winder, Esquire, was elected.

The house proceeded to ballot for a clerk; the ballots being deposited in the ballot box, the gentlemen named
to strike retired, and after sometime returned and reported, that Mr. John Brewer was elected. ORDERED, That
he be qualified as such, by taking the several oaths required, by subscribing a declaration of his belief in the
Christian religion, and by taking an oath that he will honestly, faithfully and diligently, discharge the office of
clerk to the house of delegates, and that he will not reveal or disclose the secrets thereof.