12 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1806.

By the SENATE, November 12, 1806.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegate

WE have appointed Mr. M'Elderry and Mr. Whitely to join the gentlemen named by you, for the purpose
of immediately waiting on the governor elect, and requesting his attendance in the senate room to qualify agree-
Ably to the constitution and form of government.

By order, T. ROGERS, clk.
Which was read.

Also the following letter:
Gentlemen Annapolis, Nov. 12, 1806.
YOUR joint letter of the 10th instant, notifying me of my appointment as the governor of the state of Ma-
ryland, I received, by express, at my residence in Chester-town, at half past twelve o'clock on the night of
that day.

1 accept the appointment with peculiar gratification, as I consider it the test of your approbation of my
conduct in the office of senator of the United States, which, by your, appointment, I have held for the last five
years, and in the discharge of the duties whereof I have, most cordially co-operated with a virtuous administration,
in promoting the best interests of our common country; in repealing such laws as imposed odious and unneces-
sary taxes on our fellow-citizens; in restoring the national judiciary to the state it had obtained in the time of
our Washington; in the purchase of Louisiana, and thereby extending to our western brethren the great ad-
vantages of the important port of Orleans, the navigation of the Missouri, with all its tributary, streams; in
the measures adopted to acquire the Floridas, that the American empire might be consolidated, and the risk of a
collision, with a colony of Spain avoided; in the cultivation, of the arts of peace with all our foreign relations with
temper and good faith; in an honest neutrality with all the belligerent powers; and in an exact discharge of every
duty imposed on us by existing treaties, or by the law of nations; and in the laudable attention that has been
paid to our native brethren, the savage tribe, in instructing them in the culture of the soil and domestic manu-
factures, and thereby inducing them to convert their scalping knives into pruning hooks, and their tomahawks
into implements of husbandry, and both by precept and example teaching them, to prefer the pacific olive to the
bloody laurel.

Permit me to tender to yourselves, and the honourable bodies over which you preside, the assurance of my
entire personal respect, and of my devotion to the principles of the American revolution, hallowed by the
blood of her patriots, immolated on the altar of liberty.

I now resign my office of senator in the senate of the United States. I will attend to qualify at such time
to-day as will be most agreeable to your Honours.

I am, with great respect, Gentlemen,

Your obedient servant,
ROBERT WRIGHT.

The honourable President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

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

THE committee to whom was referred the petitions of Ely Hosier and Patty Hosier, his wife, of Worces-
ter county, report, that they have taken the same into consideration, and are of opinion the prayer of the peti-
tioners ought not to be granted, and that they have leave to withdraw their said petitions.
By order, L. GASSAWAY, clk.
Which was read the first and second time by especial order and concurred with.

Mr. Partridge and Mr. Williams from the senate, acquaint the speaker that the governor elect is attending in
the senate room, and the senate requests his attendance, with the members of the house of delegates, in the
senate room, to see the governor qualified.

The speaker left the chair, and, attended by the members of this house, went to the senate room, where his
excellency qualified in the presence of both houses, by subscribing a declaration of his belief in the Christian
religion, by taking the several oaths required by the constitution and form of government, the oath of office di-
rected by act of assembly, and by taking an oath to support the constitution of the United States.
The speaker, attended by the members of this house, returned and resumed the chair.

The house adjourns until to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.

THURSDAY, November 13, 1806.

THE house met. Present the same members as on yesterday, except Mr. Forwood, Mr. Little and Mr.
Shaaff. The proceedings of yesterday were read.

Mr. Mitchell, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act authorising John Evans,
James Cockran and Joseph Phillips, securities of Samuel Cowdon, late sheriff of Caecil county, to complete the
collections of said sheriff; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

The bill to lay out and open a public road in Hopkins's Neck, in Talbot county, was read the second time,
passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.