VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1808. 41

The bill to lay out and make public an old road in Harford county, the bill to incorporate the Union Manu-
facturing Company of Maryland, and the supplement to the act, entitled, An act to regulate and discipline the
militia of tins state, were sent to the senate by the clerk.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Somerset and Worcester counties, praying that persons may be pre-
vented from fishing in Wiccomico river with float seines or set nets, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr.
Bayly, Mr. T. N. Williams and Mr. Cottman, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of the town of Salisbury, praying that chimnies built partly of clay and
partly of wood may not be suffered to continue or be erected in said town, was preferred, read, and referred to
Mr. Bayly, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Gale, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from John Moore, of Somerset county, praying a special act of insolvency, was preferred, read,
and referred to Mr. Bayly, Mr. Dennis and Mr. Gale, to consider and report thereon.

ORDERED, That the supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the speedy recovery of small debts out of
court, and to repeal the acts of assembly therein mentioned, have a second reading on Tuesday next.
A petition from Harriet Tunis, of Anne-Arundel county, praying a divorce, was preferred, read, and referred
to Mr. Belt, Mr. Bowles and Mr. O. Williams, to consider and report thereon.

Mr. Page, from the committee, delivers co the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to authorise the levy court of
Prince-George's county to assess and levy on the assessable property of said county a sum of money for the pur-
poses therein mentioned; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

A memorial from sundry inhabitants of Baltimore, Anne-Arundel and Prince-George's counties, counter to
the petition for a road from the city of Baltimore to the city of Washington, was preferred, read, and referred
to the committee appointed on the petition to which it is counter.

Mr. Bennett, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to authorise and empower
the levy court of Worcester county to levy annually a sum of money on the assessable property of said county
for the us? of Joseph Tilghman, his young child, and other afflicted children; which was read the first time and
ordered to lie on the table.

The bill for the support of Esther Jarman, of Worcester county, was read the second time and passed. "

Mr. Tilghman has leave of absence.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Caroline county, praying for a road from the county, road from North-
west fork bridge to the state line at or near Brown's chapel, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Young,
Mr. Hughlett and Mr. Willis, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from James Kent, of Queen-Anne's county, praying a confirmation of the title to the lands pur-
chased from the commissioners for the sale of the estate of Sarah Vanderin, was preferred, read, and referred
to Mr. Spencer, Mr. Wright and Mr. Hopper, to consider and report thereon.

The bill for the support of Anne Ricketts, was read the second time and passed.

The house proceeded to the second reading of the bill to increase the salary of the chief justice of the court

F oyer and terminer and general gaol delivery of Baltimore county, and the question was put. That the words
"in addition to the present salary already" be stricken out? The yeas and nays being required, appeared as
follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Angier Hodges Blake Randall Ennalls Boyle Forwood Bland
Brice Belt Parnham Brown Porter Spencer Davis Gabby
Welch O Williams Stansbury Kerr Veazey Wright Bayard Downey 31
Moffitt Merriken Harryman Seth Beall T N Williams R Steuart

NEGATIVE.

Hebb P Stuart Bayly Griffith Wilson J Thomas Young Veatch
Blakistone Chapman Gale Page Bennett Streett Bowles Hilleary
Hopewell Dorsey Cottman Herbert Baer Sanders Carroll M'Mahon
Reynolds Stevens Frazier Hopper J H Thomas Willis Gaither Tomlinson
Ireland Edmondson Dennis Hayward Sappington Hughlett S Thomas Reid 41
Grahame

So. it was determined in the negative.

On motion, the question was put, That the blank in said bill be filled up with the words " eight hundred dol-
lars ?" Determined in the negative.

The question was then put on " six hundred dollars. " Resolved in the affirmative.

The bill being read throughout, the question was put, Shall the said bill pass? The yeas and nays being re-
quired, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Hebb Welch Ireland Parnham Dennis Boyle T N Williams Gabby
Blakistone Belt Grahame Edmondson Griffith Hopper Bennett Bowles
Hopewell O Williams P Stuart Bayly Veazey Spencer Sappington Carroll
Angier. Merriken Chapman Gale Page Wright Bayard J Thomas 39
Blake Dorsey Cottman Beall Wilson Willis