VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1808. 39.

The bill being read throughout, the question was put, Shall the said bill pass? Resolved in the affirmative.

Mr. J. H. Thomas, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the following report:

THE committee to whom was referred the petition of Ariana French, executrix and devisee of George
French, deceased, of the district of Columbia, praying that the state may relinquish her legal right to certain
lands therein mentioned, beg leave to report, that they have taken the same into consideration, and after view-
ing all the circumstances, submit the following resolution:

RESOLVED, That the state's right in and to the following tracts of land, viz. Chance, containing one hundred
and forty acres; Choice, containing seventy-six acres; Property, containing one hundred and sixty-eight acres;
Tit for Tat, containing seventy-three acres, situate in Charles county; Brooming Plains, containing nine hun-
dred and seventy-seven acres; Durham, containing three hundred and eighty-four acres; Rising Sun, contain-
ing two hundred and twenty-five acres; Tom's Venture, containing ninety two acres; and Homony Isle, con-
taining one hundred and one acres, be and the same is hereby relinquished unto the said Ariana French, (exe-
cutrix and devisee of George French, deceased,) and her heirs and assign, for ever, reserving to all persons
concerned their legal and equitable interests.

By order, N. MARTIN, clk.

Which was read.

A memorial from Edward Norwood, counter to the petition of Robert Oliver, and others, was preferred, read,
and referred to the committee appointed on the petitions to which it is counter.

Mr. Randall, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, A supplement to an act, entitled,
An act to lay out and straighten a road in Baltimore county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on
the table.

Mr. Downey, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act annulling the marriage of
William Hines, and Mary his wife, of Washington county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on
the table.

Mr. Bland, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill; entitled, An act for the support of Anne
Ricketts, and a bill, entitled, An act for the relief of Jacob Gettig, of the city of Baltimore; which were
read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. T. N. Williams, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act for the support of
Esther Jarman, of Worcester county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Beall, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to authorise the county court
of Prince-George's county to grant a commission to mark and bound the land therein mentioned; which was
read the first ume and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Frazier, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act for the more effectual pre-
servation of the breed of wild deer in Dorchester county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on
the table.

A petition from William Gwynn, of the city of Baltimore, praying that the right of Baltimore county to part
of lot number eleven may be conveyed to him, on payment of a reasonable compensation therefor, was preferred,
read, and referred to Mr. Bund, Mr. R. Steuart and Mr. Stansbury, to consider and report thereon.

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

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

THE committee to whom was referred the petition of William Gough, or the city of Baltimore, having taken
the same into serious consideration report, that whereas they conceive the facts stated in his petition not fur-
nishing sufficient grounds for the relief prayed, therefore,

RESOLVED, That the said William Gough have leave to withdraw his petition.

By order, S. DAVIDSON, clk.

Which was read the first and second time by especial order and concurred with.

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

WEDNESDAY, December 7, 1808.

THE house met. Present the same members as on yesterday. The proceedings of yesterday were read.
Mr. Willis appears, in the house.

The bill for the relief of Harriet G. Wynkoop, the further additional supplement to the act, entitled, An act
for marking and bounding lands, the bill to enlarge the powers of the trustees of the poor of Montgomery coun-
ty, arid the supplement to the act, entitled, An act to incorporate a school in Allegany county, by the name of
Allegany County School, were sent to the senate by the clerk.

The house proceeded to the second reading of the bill to incorporate the Union Manufacturing Company of
Maryland, and the question was put, That the words " the latest improved" be stricken out of the tenth clause
thereof? Resolved in the affirmative.

The question was then put, That the Words " to be put in motion by water" be stricken Out of the said
clause? Resolved in the affirmative.