34 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1808.

ORDERED, That those who voted against the resolutions recommending the repeal of the law enacted by con-
gress, imposing an embargo, which passed the house on the 26th ultimo, may now have leave to enter their
protest in writing against the same on the journal of this house, together with their names.

ORDERED, That the same have a second reading on Friday next.

A petition from Sarah Dudler, of Baltimore county, praying that her daughter, Anne Ricketts, may be sup-
ported out of the poors house, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Bland, Mr. Mitchell and Mr. R. Steuart,
to consider and report thereon.

A petition from George Rutter, praying a special act of insolvency, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr.
Bowles, Mr. Tilghman and Mr. Gabby, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Hagar's-town, praying a law to impound swine or geese running at large
in said town, and to cause the water courses through said town to be kept open, was preferred, read, and re-
ferred to the committee appointed on the petition of George Rutter.

A petition from Thomas Noble Harwood, of Frederick county, praying a special act of insolvency, was pre-
ferred, read, and referred to Mr. Baer, Mr. J. Thomas and Mr. Sappington, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from Catherine Dimmett, of the city of Baltimore, praying her name may be changed to Ringgold,
was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Stansbury, Mr. Bland, Mr. Harryman, Mr. Randall and Mr. Kerr, to
consider and report thereon.

A petition from the commissioners for building a new court-house in Baltimore county, praying a further sum,
not exceeding twenty thousand dollars in any one year, may be levied on said county to complete the same, was
preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Stansbury, Mr. Harryman, Mr. Bland, Mr. R. Steuart and Mr. Randall,
to consider and report thereon.

A petition from John Done, of Somerset county, praying he may be enabled to manumit his negro slave named
Joe, who is above the age limitted by law, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Cottman, Mr. Bayly and
Mr. Dennis, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from Helena Say, of the city of Baltimore,, praying a divorce, was preferred, read, and referred
to Mr. Bland, Mr. R. Steuart and Mr. Parnham, to consider and report thereon.

Mr. Baer, from the committee, delivers. to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act authorising a lottery to raise a
sum of money for the purpose of rebuilding Benjamin church, in Frederick county, formerly known by the name
of Cryder's Church; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

The report on the petition of John Lynch, was read the second time, the resolution therein contained assented
to, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

The bill annulling the marriage of John Lamb, and Elizabeth Lamb his wife, of Kent county, was read the
second time, and the question put, Shall the said bill pass. ' The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE..

Angier Moffitt Stansbury Randall Ennalls Porter, Forwood Bayard
Brice Belt Harryman Bayly Mitchell Bennett Davis Young 18
Welch O Williams

NEGATIVE.

Blakistone Grahame Edmondson Griffith Wilson J Thomas Gabby Veatch
Hopewell P Stuart Seth Veazey T N Williams Streett Bowles Hilleary
Hodges Chapman Cottman Hart Baer Hughlett Carroll Tomlinson
Merriken Parnham Frazier Beall J H Thomas R Steuart Gaither Reid 39
Reynold Stevens Dennis Boyle Sappington Tilghman S Thomas
So it was determined in the negative.

Petition from sundry inhabitants of this state, praying for the erection of a bridge across the Susquehanna,
were preferred, read, and referred to Mr. J. H. Thomas, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Forwood, Mr. Streett, Mr. Porter,
Mr. Davis and Mr. Veazey, to consider and report thereon.

The. clerk of the senate deliver the resolutions relative to the embargo, endorsed " dissented from; " and
the following message:

By the SENATE, Decembers, 1808.

Gentlemen ef the House of Delegates,
AFTER, the most mature deliberation, the senate have negatived your resolutions respecting the embargo
imposed by a late act of congress, and conceive that a duty they owe themselves, and a due respect for your ho-
nourable body, require that they should assign some of the reasons which have influenced them in their decision
on this important subject.

They apprehend, that so far as the late election of delegates to the general assembly can be deemed an expres-
sion of the public will of the people of this state on the policy of the embargo, it is in direct hostility with the
resolutions, which appear to be predicated upon it, in as much as the aggregate number of votes given in the seve-
ral counties of the state to those candidates who were viewed as the advocates of that measure, exceed more
than four thousand the number of votes given to its opponents; and by the returns of representatives to congress,
which may, with more propriety, be said to manifest the opinion of the people of Maryland, it appears that six of
the nine representatives were chosen as the friends of the embargo, and that the votes given throughout the state
to candidates of such political opinions, exceeded nearly five thousand the number of votes given to those of op-
posite political sentiments. But the senate conceive, that since the more recent election of electors of presi-