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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1796
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114            VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November, 1796.

By the SENATE, December 30, 1796.

        GENTLEMEN,
    WE have received your message requesting us to reconsider the bill for laying out a road from
Bean-town to Port-Tobacco; having great doubts as to the propriety of the measure, and not time
to inform ourselves fully on the subject, we cannot consent to reconsider the same.
                                                            By order,                                    A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
Which was read.
The house adjourns till to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.

S    A    T    U    R    D    A    Y,    December 31, 1796.

    THE house met.  Present the same members as on yesterday.  The proceedings of yesterday
were read.
    RESOLVED, That the auditor of this state, on or before the first day of October next, liquidate
the claims of the citizens this state against William and Robert Molleson, and ascertain the
proportions which each shall be entitled to out of the monies arising from the sale of their confiscated
property, and the said auditor shall thereupon draw orders on the treasurer in favour of the said creditors
for their respective proportions; provided that notice br given by the said auditor in at least
two of the news-papers of this state for three weeks successively, for the creditors of the said Mollesons
to exhibit their claims on or before the first day of June next; and no claim exhibited subsequent
to that period shall be liquidated by him.
    Sent to the senate by the clerk.
    RESOLVED, That the key of the room occupied by the house of delegates be deposited with
William Harwood, clerk of this house, and the furniture therein be placed under his custody and care.
    The clerk of the senate delivers the bill for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, and the following
message:

By the SENATE, December 31, 1796.
        GENTLEMEN,
    WE have reconsidered our amendments to the bill for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, and
adhere to the first and second; and as to the fourth and fifth amendments, we have so far receded as
Alexander Leslie be retained in the bill.
                                                            By order,                                    A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
    Which was read, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.
The resolution in favour of Ninian Pinkney, the resolution in favour of the chancellor and judges,
the resolutions appointing commissioners to view the ground from the city of Washington to the
city of Annapolis, severally endorsed; " By the senate, December 30, 1796:  Read the first and
" second time by especial order and assented to.
                                                            " By order,                                    A.  VAN-HORN, clk."
And the following resolution:
By the SENATE, December 30, 1796.
    RESOLVED, That the examiner-general of the eastern shore take possession of, and use as an
office, one of the rooms in the court-house at Easton on said shore, not now occupied as a public
office, or by the grand or petit juries.
                                                            By order,                                      A.  VAN-HORN, clk.
    Which was read the first and second time by especial order, assented to, and sent to the senate by
the clerk.
The resolution in favour of the claimants against the estate of William and Robert Molleson, endorsed;
" By the senate, December 31, 1796:  Read the first and second time by especial order and
" dissented from.
                                                            " By order,                                    A.  VAN-HORN, clk."
    On motion, the question was put on the following:
    RESOLVED, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be advanced out of the treasury of the
western shore to the agent of this state, to be by him applied in the purchase of six per cent. stock
for the use of this state, and that the treasurer advance the same, or such part thereof as the governor
and council shall from time to time require in writing to be advanced.
    The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:
A    F    F    I    R    M    A    T    I    V    E.
Messieurs
Hopewell,
Neale,
Ridout,
Brome,
Sprigg,
Bourne,		 Parnham,
Digges,
Hyland,
Bowie,
Duckett,		 Calvert,
Quynn,
Key,
Nicholson,
Robins,		 Wilson,
Brother,
Quynn, jun.
Prall,
Driver,		 Young,
Cellar,
Bowles,
McClain,
Reintzel,		 Swearingen,
Oneale,
J. C. Beatty,
Clarke,
Tomlinson.
 
 
31.
N    E    G    A    T    I    V    E.
Messieurs
Spencer,
Barroll,
Buchanan,
J. C. Thomas,		 Hall,
Emerson,
Merryman,
Worthington,		 Ridgely,
Sherwood,
Johnson,
Jones,		 Hollingsworth,
Miller,
Wallace,
Savin,		 Brown,
Butcher,
C. Frazier,
Shriver,		 Jarrett,
McKim,
Douglass.		  

23.
So it was resolved in the affirmative.
    On motion, the question was put on the following:
 

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