60 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1808.

The bill to lay out and make public a road in Worcester county, was read the second time, passed, and sent

to the senate by the clerk.
The bill to re-value the work done on the Baltimore and York-town turnpike road, was read the second time

and the question put, Shall the said bill pass? The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.
Hopewell P Swart Cottman Boyle Baer Sanders Bland S Thomas
Belt Dorsey Ennalls Spencer. J H Thomas Bayard Gabby Hilleary,
Reynolds Parnham Griffith Hayward Sappington Hughlett Downey M'Mahon
Blake Sloven Perrie Wilson J Thomas Young Bowles Tomlinson
Ireland Edmondson Herbert Bennett Forwood R Steuart Carroll Reid 43
Grahame Bayly Beall

NEGATIVE

Blakistone Merriken Randall Gale Porter Muir Scott Willis
Brice Chapman Brown Frazier Hart Hopper Streett Gaither
Welch Stansbury Seth Mitchell Page Wright Davis Veatch 26
O Williams Harryman

So it was resolved in the affirmative.

Mr. Young, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to lay out and open a road in
Caroline county from or near Cain Ross's plantation to intersect the state-line at or near Brown's chapel; which
was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Mitchell, from the committee, delivers to the speakers bill, entitled, An act for the improvement of
Elkton, in Caecil county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Willis, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act for building a bridge over
Tuckahoe creek where the old bridge now stands; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Wilson, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to authorise the levy court
of Worcester county to assess and levy a sum of money for the purposes therein mentioned; which was read the
first time and ordered to lie on the table.

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

THE committee to whom was referred the memorial of the president and trustees of Charlotte-Hall school
report, that they have considered the same, and find, from the proper vouchers, that the money granted as a
donation to that seminary, has been applied as is directed by the act of assembly under which the said school is
endowed; that there are seventy-seven scholars now attending the said school, a number much smaller than
usual, proceeding, as your committee believe, from the disastrous situation of the country in pecuniary resources.
Your committee, while they view with singular satisfaction the competency of this seminary to afford more than
the advantages contemplated in its establishment, still regret, that from the narrowness of its funds alone, so-
ciety may be disappointed in the expectation of a most extensive diffusion of knowledge and science, promised
by the said seminary; and as the trustees find themselves considerably: embarrassed with the payment of the sum
of one thousand pounds, heretofore: loaned by the state, and which has been expended in erecting necessary and
commodious buildings for the accommodation of the tutors and pupils engaged at the same, and by a due appli-
cation of which sum the school has progressed to a high state of respectability, and as an exaction of the pay-
ment of the said sum would frustrate the fairest prospects of the said seminary, they are therefore of opinion
that it would comport with the wise and dignified policy of the state, pursued in granting the loan of the afore-
said sum of one thousand pounds, to release the same, with the interest due thereon, to the trustees aforesaid,
for the ultimate benefit of Charlotte-Hall school, and with that impression, recommend the passage of the bill
herewith submitted.

By order, S. LOWDERMILK, clk.
Which was read.

And a bill, entitled. An act for the benefit of the trustees of Charlotte-Hall school; which was read the first
time and ordered to lie on the table.

Petitions from sundry inhabitants of Harford county, praying for a bridge across Deer creek, and for a road
from a place known by the name of Henry Myers's Mill, now William Wilson's, round by Thomas Amos's,
until it intersects the main road leading from William Slade's mill to the city of Baltimore, were preferred,
read, and referred to Mr. Streett, Mr. Davis and Mr. Forwood, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from David Hopkins, praying half pay as a major, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Chap-
man, Mr. Gale and Mr. Belt, to consider and report thereon.

Mr. Stansbury, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act for opening a certain
road in Baltimore county therein mentioned; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

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

THE committee to whom was referred the petition of David Hopkins report, that they have had the same
under consideration, and find, from a commission exhibitted with the said petition, that the said David Hopkins
was a major of. the first regiment of light dragoons in the army of the United States. Your committee do not
attempt to say any thing with respect to the merits of the petitioner on the subject matter of his application,
further than that they are satisfied if his rank had been understood at the time he was placed on the half pay
establishment as a captain, by a resolution of the general assembly at November session, eighteen hundred and