364           JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 12,

tained in the resolutions of October 21st, 1780, January 7th,
1781, and 8th March, 1785:

Which were read.

Mr. Lynch, of Baltimore county, offered the following or-
der:

Ordered, That it be entered on the Journal that Dr. Allen-
der, of Baltimore county, is absent from this House on ac-
count of sickness.

Mr. Harrington, from the committee on Corporations, re-
ported favorably on the following bills:

A bill entitled, an act supplemental to an act passed at
December session, 1845, entitled, an act to incorporate the
Newton University.

A bill entitled, an act to incorporate the Methodist Epis-
copal church at Port Deposit, in Cecil county.

A bill entitled, an act to incorporate a company to make
a Turnpike from Bel-Air to Frogtown.

A bill entitled, an act to incorporate the Baltimore City
Guard;

Which were severally read the first time.

Mr. Mackubin, from the committee on Inspections, proposed
the following resolutions:

Whereas, Mason L. Weems, Theodore Weems, George W.
Weems and Gustavus Weems, have shown to this General
Assembly, that the frontage heretofore allotted to the line of
steamboats owned and commanded by them, on the State's
wharf, opposite the Tobacco Warehouse No. 2, in the city of
Baltimore, is insufficient for the proper shipment and delivery
of the passengers and freight carried by them between the Pa-
tuxent river and the said city, consisting, in great part, of
tobacco, for the use and accommodation of which trade and
interest, the said wharf was originally designed.

And whereas, they have offered to pay to the State, for the
extension and use of said front, a just and reasonable com-
pensation; therefore be it

Resolved, by the General Assembly of Maryland, that the
State Wharfinger be, and he is hereby directed, to allot to
the said Mason L. Weems and others, owners and command-
of the steamers, Patuxent, Planter and Mary Washington,
for the use and occupation of said line of steamers, two hun-
dred feet frontage of the State of Maryland's wharf, opposite
the State's Tobacco Warehouse, (No. 2,) in the city of Balti-
more, commencing for the same at Smith's Wharf, and ex-
tending two hundred feet, at and for the yearly rent of one
thousand dollars, to be paid to the State Wharfinger in quar-