VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1808. 69

bill, entitled, A further, supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the relief of the poor of Caroline county,
and to repeal part of the act of assembly therein mentioned; which were severally read the first and second
time by especial order and passed.

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

THE committee to whom was referred the petition of Sarah Clopper, of the city of Baltimore, report, that
they have taken the same into consideration, and are of opinion that the request is unreasonable, and ought not
to be granted, and that the said petitioner therefore have leave to withdraw her petition.
By order, S. DAVIDSON, clk.

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

The amendment proposed to the bill to make valid a deed from Charlotte Murray to John Murray, of Dor-
chester county, was read, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.

Mr. Sanders, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the following resolution:

RESOLVED, That John C. Bond, having nearly paid the balance of principal and interest of six per cent, on
the sum due from him to the state as sheriff, be and he is hereby released from the nine per cent, additional in-
terest, incurred by non-payment of the principal and interest within the time limitted by law, upon his paying
the balance due by him, together with six per cent, interest, on or before the first day of January, eighteen
hundred and ten.

Which was read the first and second time by especial order and assented to.

Mr. Mitchell, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act annulling the marriage of
Thomas Rowe, of Caecil county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

The report of the committee on the petition of David Hopkins, was read the second time and the resolution
therein contained assented to.

The house, proceeded to the second reading of the further supplement to an act, entitled,. An act for regu
lating the mode of staying executions, and repealing the acts of assembly therein mentioned, and the question
was put, Shall the said bill pass? The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Hebb O Williams Dorsey Kerr Griffith Hayward Willis Gaither
Blakistone Merriken Parnham Seth Perrie Wilson Hughlett S Thomas
Ho|well Ireland Stansbury Bayly Herbert Baer Young Veatch
Brice Grahame Randall Gale Beall J H Thomas Bland Hilleary
Welch P Stuart Stevens Cottman Boyle Sappington Downey M'Mahon
Hodges Chapman Edmondson Dennis Spencer J Thomas Carroll Tomlinson 49
Belt

NEGATIVE.

Reynolds Brown Page Wright Bennett Streett Davis Streett
Blake Mitchell Hopper Scott Forwood Sanders Bayard Bowles 18
Harryman Porter

So it was resolved in the affirmative.

Mr. Bland, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act for the relief of William Has-
lett Smith, of Baltimore county; 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 Young Wilkinson, of the city of Annapolis, report,
that they have considered the same, and find, from sufficient testimony, that the petitioner was a lieutenant in
the artillery of the Maryland line during the revolutionary war, which character he sustained with honour to
himself and advantage to his country; that he is now sixty-four years of age, and labouring under the infirmi-
ties of his advanced period of life, without any other means of support than his bodily exertions, which arc too
feeble to be relied on even for those things indispensable to his existence. Your committee, believing it should
be the peculiar care of the legislature to provide for those who have claims on their patronage, so well founded
as the petitioner's, recommend the following resolution:

RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore be and he is hereby authorised and directed to pay unto
Young Wilkinson, of the city of Annapolis, late a lieutenant of the artillery in the Maryland line during the
revolutionary war, annually, in quarterly payments, a sum of money equal to the half pay of a lieutenant of the
artillery aforesaid.
All which is submitted.

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

The amendments proposed to the bill to make a further provision for the erection of a new court-house for

Baltimore county, the bill to incorporate the president and directors of the Baltimore water company, and the
bill for the relief of Francis Rawlings, of Anne-Arundel county, were read the second, time, agreed to, and the
bills ordered to be engrossed.

The bill for the relief of Folger Pope, of the city of Baltimore, an insolvent debtor, was read the second
time, and the question put, Shall the said bill pass? Determined in the negative.

The amendments proposed to the bill to prevent persons from staking out seines across the river Wiccomico,
in Somerset county, were read the second time, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.