VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1808. 67

The further supplement to the act, entitled, An act relating to servants and slaves, was read the second time,
passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

Mr. Bayly, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to prevent the erection of
chimnies of materials other than brick or stone in the town of Salisbury, in Somerset and Worcester counties;

which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Streett, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to make public an old road in
Harford county; which was read the first and second time by especial order, passed, and sent to the senate by
the clerk.

The amendments proposed to the further additional supplement to an act, entitled, An act for erecting build-,
ings for the use of the poor in Queen-Anne's county, and tor other purposes, the bill authorising Jasper E. Til-
ly, late sheriff of Anne-Arundel county, to complete his collection, and the bill authorising Benjamin Ray, late
sheriff and collector of Montgomery county, to complete his collection, were read the second time, agreed to,
and the bills ordered to be engrossed.

The resolution in favour of John Wilkins, and his securities, was read the second time and assented to.

The bill to prevent the erection of hucksters booths near the places, and during the times, of divine worship,
was read the second time, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

A petition from Hester Fibbins, praying a divorce, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Hodges, Mr.
R. Steuart and Mr. Blake, to consider ana report thereon.

Mr. Sanders, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act for the relief of Folger
Pope, an insolvent debtor; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

The bill to repeal an act, entitled, An act for the punishment of forgery, and for other purposes, the further
supplement to the act, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, passed at November session,
eighteen hundred and five, and the supplement to the act, entitled, An act for quieting possessions. and securing
the estates of purchasers, were read the second time, passed, and sent to the senate by the clerk.

The clerk of the senate delivers the bill to authorise and empower the levy court of Baltimore county to as-
sess and levy a sum of money for the support and maintenance of Richard Bond, the bill to enlarge the powers
of the trustees of the poor In Somerset county, the bill tor the support of John Richards, of Montgomery
county, the bill for the benefit of the children of Isaac Lansdale, deceased, of Prince George's county, the bill,
authorising and empowering Stephen Collins and Whittington Polk to dispose of the lands therein mentioned,
the bill to pay the civil list, and other expenses of civil government, the bill to extend the time for the presi-
dent, managers and company, of the Fails turnpike road, to complete the said road, and the bill authorising
William Moffitt, late sheriff and collector of Kent county, to complete his collection, severally endorsed, "will
pass. " Ordered to be engrossed. Also the bill to make valid a deed from Charlotte Murray to John Murray, of
Dorchester county, the bill for the relief of Francis Rawlings, of Anne-Arundel county, the bill to nuke a,
further, provision for the erection of a new court house tor Baltimore comity, and the bill to prevent persons
from staking out seines across the river Wiccomico, in Somerset county, severally endorsed, " will puss with,
the proposed amendments; " which amendments were read. Also the bill directing the register of the land-
office of the western shore to issue patent to George Churchman, and others, for the land or lot therein men-
tioned, and the bill to regulate the fees of the register of the court of chancery, severally endorsed, "will not
pass. " Also a bill, entitled, A supplement to the act, entitled. An act authorising the drawing of a lottery for
the benefit of the college of medicine of Maryland; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table..
And the resolution relative to the purchase of arms, endorsed, " assented to. "

The bill annulling the marriage of Nathan Adams and Rebecca his wife, was read the second time, and the
question put. Shall the said bill pass? Determined in the negative.
The report of the committee on the petition of Marsham Parker, was read the second time, and the question
put, That the house concur therewith and assent to the resolution therein contained? Determined in the neg-
ative.
The message in answer to the message of the senate giving reasons for negativing the resolutions relative to
the embargo, was read the second time, and the question put, That the house accede to the same? The yeas
and nays being required, appeared as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Hebb Ireland Parnham Frazier Herbert Baer Young Hilleary
Blakistone Grahame Edmondson Dennis Beall Thomas Carroll M'Mahon
Hopewell P Stuart Bayly Griffith Hayward Sappington Gaither Tomlinson
Reynolds Chapman Gale Page Wilson J Thomas S Thomas Reid 39
Blake Dorsey Cottman Perrie Bennett Hughlett Veatch

NEGATIVE,

Brice O Williams Randall Seth Boyle Scott Davis Gabby
Welch Merriken Brown Mitchell Hopper Forwood Bayard Downey
Hodges Stansbury Stevens Porter Spencer Streett Willis Bowles 31
Belt Harryman Kerr Hart Wright Sanders H Steuart

So it was resolved in the affirmative.

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