56 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1808.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Baltimore county, praying for a road from the end of the Falls turn-
pike to the Pennsylvania line, and a petition counter thereto, were preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Stans-
bury, Mr. Harryman, Mr. Bland, Mr. Brown and Mr. Randall, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of the upper part of Harford and Baltimore counties, praying the confir-
mation of a road from John Wise's to William Slade's, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Sunders, Mr.
Forwood, Mr. Davis, Mr. Stansbury and Mr. Brown, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Baltimore and Harford counties, praying for a road from Aquila Gal-
loway's lane, passing by Daniel Walker's mill, to intersect the eastern York road, was preferred, read, and re-
ferred to Mr. Harryman, Mr. Stansbury, Mr. R. Steuart, Mr. Forwood and Mr. Davis, to consider and report
thereon.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Harford county, praying a repeal of the law authorising a road from
Underhill's mill to the city of Baltimore, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Forwood, Mr. Streett and
Mr. Sanders, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from Benjamin Ray, late sheriff and collector of Montgomery county, praying a further time to
complete his collections, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Carroll, Mr. Veatch and Mr. Gaither, to
consider and report thereon.

The bill for the relief of Jacob Gettig, of the city of Baltimore, was read the second time, passed, and sent
to the senate by the clerk.

Mr. Dorsey, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the following resolutions:

RESOLVED, That the executive be authorised and requested to purchase three hundred horsemen pistols, and
three hundred cavalry swords, for the use of the state, and subject to the future order of the legislature.

RESOLVED, That the executive be authorised and requested to purchase, in case there should exist a necessi-
ty for the same, four thousand water proof cartridge boxes, and four thousand knapsacks, and that the sums
necessary for the said resolutions be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury of the western shore,
by a draught thereon by the executive, for the same.

Which was read.

The further additional supplement to an act, entitled. An act for erecting buildings for the use of the poor in
Queen-Anne's county, and for other purposes, the further supplement to an act entitled. An act for the better
regulation of apprentices, and the bill authorising and empowering Stephen Collins and Whittington Polk to
dispose of the lands therein mentioned, were read the second time, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

The amendments proposed to the further additional supplement to the act, entitled, An act for marking and
bounding lands, and the bill 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 purposes therein mentioned, were read the second
time, agreed to, and the bills ordered to be engrossed.

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

THE committee to whom the leave to bring in a bill to provide arms to arm the militia of this state was. re-
ferred, beg leave to report, that the committee to whom the communications of the executive on the requisition
from the war department were referred, have, by submitting to this house sundry resolutions, gratified the; ob-
ject contemplated by the leave, and of course superseded the necessity of your committee submitting to the
house any thing relating thereto.

By order, D. L. JACOB, clk.

Which was read the first and second time by especial order, and the question put, That the house concur
therewith? The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Hebb Ireland Parnham Beall Baer Willis Carroll Hilleary
Blakistone Grahame Gale Spencer J H Thomas Hughlett Gaither M'Mahon
Hopewell P Smart Cottman Hayward Sappington Young S Thomas Tomlinson
Reynolds Chapman Griffith Wilson J Thomas Downey Veatch Reid 36
Blake Dorsey Perrie Bennett

NEGATIVE.

Brice Merriken Brown Bayly Hart Hopper Sanders Bland
Welch Stansbury Stevens Ennalls Page Wright Davis Gabby
Belt Harryman Edmondson Mitchell Herbert Scott Bayard Bowles. 31
O Williams Randall Seth Porter Boyle Forwood K Steuart

So it was resolved in the affirmative.

Mr. S. Thomas, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to authorise certain com-
missioners to lay off a town in Montgomery county, by the name of Brookeville; which was read the first time
and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Boyle, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act for the relief of Francis.
Rawlings, of Anne-Arundel county; which was read the first and second time by especial order, and passed.

Mr. R. Steuart, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act annulling the marriage of
Frederick Beamer, and Susannah his wife, of the city of Baltimore; which was read the first time and ordered
to lie on the table.

The following message was read.