64 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1808.

orphans court for Baltimore county, and a bill, entitled, A further supplement to the act, entitled, An act for
the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, passed at November session, eighteen hundred and five, severally en-
dorsed, " will pass; " which were read the first time and ordered to lie on the table. And the resolution in
favour of John Williams, endorsed "assented to. "

A petition from Nancy Gaither, and others, praying for a road to intersect Ellicotts road at the mouth of
their lane, at the east end of their old dwelling, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. O. Williams, Mr.
Merriken and Mr. Carroll, to consider and report thereon.

The report on the petition of John Trueman was read the second time, and the question put, That the blank
therein be filled up with the words " one hundred and fifty dollars ?" Resolved in the affirmative.

The question was then put, That the house assent to the same? Resolved in the affirmative, and the resolu-
tion sent to the senate by the clerk.

Mr. Downey, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act annulling the marriage of
Nathan Adams and Rebecca his wife; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

The bill for the relief and benefit of John Moor, of Somerset county, and the bill to alter and change the name of
Catherine Dimmett to Catherine Ringgold, were read the second time, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

On motion. Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, An act to incorporate the convention of the Protestant
episcopal church in Maryland. ORDERED, That Mr. Chapman, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Dorsey, be a committee
to prepare and bring in the same.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Harford county, counter to the petitions for a bridge over the river
Susquehanna and Little Falls of Gunpowder, was preferred, read, and referred to the committee appointed cm
the petitions to which it is counter.

Mr. R. Steuart, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act annulling the marriage of
Elizabeth K. M'Kay, of the city of Baltimore i which was read the first and second time by especial order,
passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

The bill for opening a certain road in Baltimore county therein mentioned, was read the second time by espe-
cial order, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

The house proceeded to the second reading of the bill for the appointment by the people of the justices of
the levy courts in the several counties of this state, and the question was put, Shall the said bill pass? The
yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Hebb Merriken Chapman Ennalls Beall J H Thomas Hughlett Veatch
Blakistone Reynolds Dorsey Frazier Muir Sappington Young Hilleary
Hopewell Blake Parnham Dennis Hayward J Thomas Carroll M'Mahon
Brice Ireland Bayly Griffith Wilton Streett Gaither Tomlinson.
Welch Grahame Gale Porter Bennett Willis S Thomas Reid 45
Belt P Stuart Cottman Perrie. Baer

NEGATIVE.

Angier Brown Kerr Hart Spencer Forwood Bayard Downey
Stansbury Stevens Seth Boyle Wright Sanders R Steuart Bowles 23
Randall Edmondson Mitchell Hopper Scott Davis Gabby.

So it was resolved in the affirmative.

Mr. Dennis, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled An act to make valid a deed from
Charlotte Murray to John Murray, of Dorchester county; which was read the first and second time by especial
order, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

A petition from Francis Johnson, of the city of Baltimore, stating that he was wounded in the revolu-
tionary war, and praying some relief, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. P. Stuart, Mr. Boyle and Mr.
Mitchell, to consider and report thereon.

Mr. Stansbury, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the following report:
THE committee to whom was referred the memorial of William Gwynn, together with the counter memorial
of John Swann, have taken the same into their serious consideration, and beg leave to report, that by an act of
assembly passed at May session, in the year 1768, a piece of ground was directed to be purchased in the manner
therein mentioned, for the purpose of erecting thereon a court-house and gaol for the use of Baltimore county,
and by virtue of the said act a piece of ground was procured, and duly marked and designated, at the upper end
of Calvert street, next to Jones' Falls: That by an act of assembly passed at October session, 1780, the com-
missioners appointed to preserve confiscated British property, were authorised and directed, amongst other
things, to sell Lot No. 11 in Baltimore-town, which was adjoining to the piece of ground which had been pur-
chased for the use of the county: That in pursuance of said direction and authority, the commissioners sold
said Lot No. 11 to a certain John M'Lure, under whom the said memorialist, William Gwynn, claims: That
owing to some mistake of the commissioners, or the persons to whom they sold, the said Lot No. 11 was sup-
posed to include a part of that piece of ground which had been bid off and appropriated to the use of Baltimore
county, but that before the said William Gwynn purchased the said Lot No. 11, the said mistake was discover-
ed, and the said William Gwynn purchased the said lot, and paid for the same, under a full and perfect know-
ledge of all the circumstances relative thereto: That at November session an act passed, entitled. An act to
provide for the election of a new court-house far Baltimore county, and among other things the commissioners