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Journal of the House of Delegates, 1808
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30 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1808.

On further progression, the question was put, That the following be inserted after the 3d clause? " And be
it enacted. That the term of twelve months, mentioned in the fourth section of the act to which this is a supple-
ment, within which each dragoon and each artillerist was to arm and equip himself in the manner therein pre-
scribed, be and the same is hereby extended to the first day of December, 1809. " Resolved in the affirmative.

On motion, that the following be inserted after the last amendment? to wit: "And be it enacted, That all
such parts of the eleventh section of the act to which this is a supplement as fix the annual exempt fine of each
quaker, menonist, tunker, or person conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms, to five dollars, is hereby re-
pealed, and that the annual exempt fine is hereby fixed at —— dollars, " the question was put, That the blank
therein be filled up with the word "three ?" Resolved in the affirmative.

The question was then put, That the house reconsider the Same? Resolved in the affirmative.

The question was then put, That the said blank be filled up with the word " five ?" The yeas and nays being
required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Hebb Hopewell Randall Ennalls Mitchell Boyle Bland Downey
Neale Belt Brown Frazier Brail R Steuart Gabby Bowles 18
Blakistone O Williams

NEGATIVE,

Angier P Stuart Edmondson Griffith Spencer J H Thomas Davis S Thomas
Brice Chapman Kerr Porter Wright Sappington Bayard Veatch
Moffitt Dorsey Seth Hart Wilson J Thomas Hughlett Hilleary
Hodges Parnham Bayly Page T N Williams Forwood Young M'Mahon
Blake Stansbury Gale Herbert Bennett Streett Carroll Tomlinson
Ireland Harryman Cottman Hopper Baer Sanders Gaither Reid 51
Grahame Stevens Dennis

So it was determined in the negative.

The question was then put, That the further consideration of the said bill be postponed until to-morrow?
Resolved in the affirmative.

Mr. Dorsey, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to increase the salary of the
chief justice of the court of oyer and terminer and general gaol delivery of Baltimore county; which was read
the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

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

FRIDAY, Decembers, 1808.

THE house met. Present the same members as on yesterday, except Mr. " Scott. The proceedings of yes-
terday were read.

Mr. Bland, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to incorporate the president"
and directors of the Baltimore water company; which was read the first time and ordered to He on the cable.

The clerk of the senate delivers a bill, entitled, An act to incorporate the Union Manufacturing Company of
Maryland; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table. Also the bill for the relief of Mary
Connerly, of Anne-Arundel county, endorsed, " will pass with the proposed amendment; " which amendment
was read. Also the bill authorising Nathaniel Rochester, late sheriff and collector of Washington county, to
complete his collections, endorsed, " will pass with the proposed amendments; " which amendments were read,
agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed. Also the bill to reduce the per diem of the judges and clerks
of elections in Allegany county, endorsed, " will not pass. " Also the bill for the relief of James Mulvany, of
Washington county, endorsed, " will pass. " Ordered to be engrossed. And the following message:

By the SENATE, December 2, 1808.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates

THE proposition contained in your message of the 29th ultimo has commanded our attention, and we pro-
pose, with the concurrence of your house, (in order to economise the time of the legislature, ) to proceed im-
mediately to an election, by one ballotation, of two directors on the part of the state for the Farmers Bank of
Maryland at Annapolis, two for the branch of said bank at Easton, two for the Union Bank of Maryland, two
for the Mechanics Bank of Baltimore, and one for the Hagar's-town Bank. Thomas Dickson and Samuel Wright
for the Union Bank of Maryland, Tobias E. Stansbury and Peter Little for the Mechanics Bank of Baltimore,
William Kilty and John S. Belt for the Farmers Bank at Annapolis, David Kerr, junior, and John Kennard for
the branch of the Farmers Bank at Easton, and Henry Lewis for the Hagar's-town Bank, are put in nomination
by this house, and Mr. Thomas B. Dorsey and Mr. Covington are appointed to join the members who may be
chosen by you to examine the ballots; and, for the purpose of. regulating the said election, RESOLVED, That
he person or persons having a majority of the ballots of all the attending members of both branches of the
legislature shall be the director or directors of the said banks respectively..

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

Mr. Porter, from the committee, delivers. to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to lay out and open two pub-
lic roads in Caecil county; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

 

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