From Maryland General Assembly. 1809

Wednesday Nov. 15.

On motion of Mr. J. E. Spencer, leave given to bring in a bill entitled an act to prevent free negroes, mulattoes or slaves from attending a place where a regiment or battalion may be convened for military duty.

Order that Messrs. J. E. Spencer, Bowles and Harryman, prepare and bring in the same.               

Mr. Veazy delivered a petition from sundry inhabitants of Cecil county, praying for a turnpike road from French Town to the state line on the route to New Castle in the state of Delaware, referred.       

A bill to affix the mode of choosing Senators to represent this state, in the senate of the United States, was read. [The mode of election in future is to be by joint ballot of both houses.]