VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1808. 81

On motion. Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, A further supplement to an act, entitled, An act for re-
gulating the mode of staying executions, and repealing the acts of assembly therein mentioned. ORDERED, That
Mr. M'Mahon, Mr. Sanders and Mr. Tomlinson, be a committee to prepare and bring in the same.

The following resolution was read the first and second time by especial order, assented to, and sent to the
senate by the clerk.

RESOLVED, That the executive of this state be and they are hereby required to take all proper steps to cause
to be returned all arms the property of the state that may be in possession of persons in the district of Columbia,
and that they make report of the same to the next legislature.

ORDERED, That the order passed yesterday on that subject be rescinded.

A petition from Isaiah Green, Samuel Fowler and Catherine Working, praying compensation for injuries re-
ceived in attempting to prevent criminals from escaping from Baltimore gaol, was preferred, read, and referred
to Mr. R. Steuart, Mr. Bland and Mr. Harryman, to consider and report thereon.

The bill annulling the marriage of Francis Fibbins and Hester Fibbins, of Anne-Arundel county, was read
the second time, and the question put, Shall the said bill pass. Determined in the negative.

The bill to straighten and lay out a road in Baltimore and Harford counties, was read the second time, pass-
ed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, An act to abolish all such parts of the constitution and
form of government as relate to the time and manner of electing the senate, and the mode of filling up vacan-
cies in that body. ORDERED, That Mr. J. H. Thomas, Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Young, be a committee to pre--
pare and bring in the same.

Mr. J. H. Thomas, from the committee, delivers to the speaker the said bill; which was read the first timer
and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. M'Mahon, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, A further supplement to an act,
entitled, An act for regulating the mode of staying executions, and repealing the acts of assembly therein men-
tioned; which was read the first and second time by especial order, passed, and sent co the senate by the
clerk.

Mr. Stansbury, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to lay out a road therein
mentioned; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

The resolution in favour of John S. Brookes was read the second time, assented to, and sent to the senate by
the clerk.

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

WHEREAS it is represented by the petition of Isaiah Green, Samuel Fowler and Catherine Working, that
on the night of the 14th March last, when the state criminals who were confined in the gaol of Baltimore coun-
ty broke open the same, the said Isaiah Green and Samuel Fowler were both dangerously wounded, and George
Working, the husband of the said Catherine Working, was killed in assisting the gaoler to prevent the escape
of the said criminals; that the said Green and Fowler, beside their great bodily sufferings, have been thereby
put to a heavy expense, and that the said George Working has left a wife and three children unprovided for;
And whereas the said Isaiah Green, Samuel Fowler and Catherine Working, have prayed relief from this gene-
ral assembly, and have been strongly recommended as meriting it, and which prayer is deemed reasonable, in as
much as the said sufferers voluntarily afforded assistance to the gaoler in the support of the laws; therefore,
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore pay out of the monies accruing from fines and forfeitures
in the court of oyer and terminer and general gaol delivery for Baltimore county, the sum of ——— dollars to
the said Samuel Fowler, the sum of —— dollars to the said Isaiah Green, and the sum of —— dollars to the
said Catherine Working.

Which was read the first and second time by especial order, and the question put. That the two first blanks
in the resolution be filled up each with the words two hundred: Determined in the negative.

The question was then put on one hundred and eighty-nine. Resolved in the affirmative.

The question was then put, That the last blank be filled up with two hundred? Resolved in the affirmative.
The question was then put, That the house assent to the said resolution? The yeas and nays being required,
appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Brice Ireland Randall Porter Wright J Thomas Young Downey
Hodges. P Smart Brown Page Scott Sanders K Steuart Carroll
Belt Parnham Seth Perrie Bennett Bayard Bland Gaither
O Williams Stansbury Gale Beall Baer Willis Tilghman S Thomas
Merriken Harryman Mitchell Spencer Sappington Hughlett Ganby Veatch 42
Blake

NEGATIVE.

Hebb Reynolds Edmondson Bayly Griffith Boyle Bowles Tomlinson
Blakistone Grahame Kerr Cottman Herbert Hayward Hilleary Reid 18
Hopewell Dorsey

So it was resolved in the affirmative
Sent to the senate by the clerk.