VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1806. 97

Useful investment of the money now in the treasury. This measure must originate with you: The subject is an
important one, and we propose a conference of the two branches thereon, and supposing you will concur there-
with, have named Mr. Partridge, Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Gibson, a committee on the part of the senate, to join
any gentlemen you may think proper to name.

By order, T. ROGERS, clk.

Which was read.

The following message was read and. agreed to, and,. with the resolution relative thereto, sent to the senate
By the clerk.

By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, January 4, 1807.

Gentlemen of the Senate,

WE perceive with regret that you have returned the resolution making some compensation to the clerk of
the council for his labour in arranging the papers in the council chamber, dissented from. We flatter ourselves
that on reconsideration you will agree with us in opinion, that some remuneration should be made to a public
officer, whose labour has tended so much to promote the general convenience; under this impression we return
the resolution, hoping that on reconsideration it will. pass your house.

By order, J. BREWER, clk.
The following message was read, agreed to, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, January 4, 1807.

Gentlemen ef the Senate,
WE have considered your message, proposing a conference on the subject of investing the unappropriated
money in the treasury, and assenting thereto, have appointed Mr. Kerr, Mr. Chapman and Mr. Bell, on the
part of this house, to join the gentlemen named by you to carry the object of the message into effect.

By order, J. BREWER, clk.

The clerk of the senate delivers the supplement to the act, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent
debtors, endorsed " upon reconsideration will pass with the proposed amendments; " which amendments were
read the first and second time by especial order, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed. The engrossed
bills from No. 62 to 89, inclusive, severally endorsed "read and assented to. "
The following message was read.
By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, January 4, 1807.

Gentlemen of the Senate,

WE regret that you have returned the resolution making an additional compensation to the clerk of the house
of delegates for his extraordinary labour in arranging alphabetically the old papers in the committee room, dis-
sented from.

We hope that upon a reconsideration. you, will coincide with us in opinion, that some further compensation
ought to be made to our clerk, whose labour has greatly tended to the convenience of the house of delegates.
Under this expectation we have returned the resolution for your reconsideration.

By order, J. BREWER, clk.
And the question put, That the house agree to the same? Determined in the negative.

The house adjourns until five o'clock P. M.

FIVE O'CLOCK P. M..

THE house met.
Mr. Chapman, from the committee of conference, delivers to the speaker the following report:

THE joint committee of both houses, appointed to consider and report what would be the most proper in-
vestment of the unappropriated money of the state, having considered the subject matter referred to them, re-
port, that from the best information they can obtain, there is not a greater sum of money at this time in the
treasury than eighty thousand dollars which can be with certainty invested to promote the interest of the state,
and that sum, they are of opinion, ought to be disposed of in shares to be subscribed for in the Farmers Bank
of. Maryland; they therefore submit the following resolution:.

RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore be and he is hereby authorised and directed to subscribe
for sixteen hundred shares in the Farmers Bank of Maryland, and pay the amount thereof to the president and
directors, of the said bank, out of the money which may be in the treasury at the time of subscribing for the same.

Which was read the first and second time by especial order, the resolution therein-contained assented to, and
sent to the senate by the clerk.

The following message was. read, agreed to, and, with the resolution relative thereto, sent to the senate by.
the clerk.

By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, January 4, 1807.
Gentlemen of the. Senate, ,

WE return you the resolution in favour of John Smith Brookes, of Prince-George's county, in expectation
that when you take into consideration the peculiar situation in which the petitioner stands, being only a secu-
rity, and having paid nearly five thousand pounds as such into the treasury, and there being only a balance of