24 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1806.

On motion, ORDERED, That the further supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the better regulation o£
apprentices, have a second reading on Friday next.

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

TUESDAY, November 25, 1806.

THE house met. Present the same-members as on yesterday, except Mr. Hebb, Mr. Bond and Mr. Street.
The proceedings of yesterday were read. Mr. Carroll and Mr. Bond appear in the house.

A petition from John Spriggs, of Baltimore county, praying a special act of insolvency, was preferred, read,
and referred to Mr. Hall, Mr. Chapman and Mr. Aisquith, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from Pamela Sampson, of Baltimore county, praying to be divorced from her husband, was pre-
ferred, read, and referred to Mr. Aisquith, Mr. Blakistone and Mr. Gardiner, to consider and report thereon.
The following message was read, agreed to, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, November 25, 1806.
Gentlemen of the Senate

WE propose, with the concurrence of your house, to proceed immediately to the election of a senator in the
senate of the United States. Philip Reid, William Hayward and John Partridge, Esquires, are put in nomina-
tion by this house. We have appointed Mr. Smoot and Mr. Philip Stuart, on the part of this house, to join such
gentlemen as may be named by your house, for the purpose of counting the ballots.

By order, J. BREWER, clk.

A petition from Mary Kline, of the city of Baltimore, praying to be divorced from her husband, Jacob Kline,
was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Aisquith, Mr. Parnham and Mr. Gleaves, to consider and report thereon.
Mr. Blakistone, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to provide for the elec-
tion of commissioners by the people to settle and ascertain the public taxes in each county of this state, and
for other purposes; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

The clerk of the senate delivers the following. message:

By the SENATE, November 25, 1805.

Gentlemen of the House of Delegates,
WE are prepared to proceed immediately to the election of a senator of the United States, and are autho-
rised to state, that John Partridge, Esquire, nominated in your message, requests his name to be withdrawn.
No person is put in nomination by this house in addition to those named by you. We have appointed Mr. Dor-
sey and Mr. Gibson to join the gentlemen named by you to examine the ballots.

By order, T. ROGERS, clk.

Which was read.

The house proceeded to ballot for a senator to represent this state in the senate of the United States; the
ballots being deposited in the ballot, box, the gentlemen named to strike retired, and after sometime returned
and reported, that Philip Reid, Esquire, had a majority of votes of all the attending members of the legislature.

Whereupon RESOLVED, That Philip Reid, Esquire, be, and he is hereby declared to be, a senator to repre-
sent this state in the senate of the United States.

Mr. Blakistone, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, A supplement to the act, en-
titled, An act to establish pilots, and regulate their fees; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the
table.

On motion, Leave given to bring in a bill, entitled, An act for the destruction of crows in the several coun-
ties of this state. ORDERED, That Mr. Hall, Mr. B. Hodge and Mr. W. H. Blown, be a committee to pre-
pare and bring in the same.

The bill for the relief of Hugh Lemmon and James Burton, of Frederick county, was read the second time,
passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

The bill annulling the marriage of Rowland Overy and Elizabeth Overy, was read the second time, and the
question put, Shall the said bill pass? The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Pearce, Williams, Harryman, Ward, Gleaves, Bond, Aisquith, Briscoe,
Comegys, Lyles, Kerr, Porter, Biggs, Davis, Watts, Beall. 21.
Belt, Little, Dickinson, Woodward, Waters,

NEGATIVE.

Gardiner, Emerson, Denny, Smoot, Hall, Bishop, Keene, Carroll,

Blakistone, P. Stuart, Martin, Frazier, Shaaff, Dashiell, Jump, Selby,

Frisby, Chapman, Winder, Dennis, Sudler, Kuhn, Turpin, Darne,

C. D. Hodges, Parnham, Jackson, Cox, Downes, Forwood, R Steuart, Rizer. 39.

Blake, M'Pherson, King, B. Hodges, Sturgis, Bayard, Bowles,

So it was determined in the negative.

The clerk of the senate delivers the bill for the relief of William Rickard, of Montgomery county, and the
bill to authorise and empower the levy court of Worcester county to assess and levy a sum of money for the
support and maintenance of Susanna Davis, severally endorsed " will pass. " Ordered to be engrossed. And