MONDAY the fourth instant, being the day appointed by the constitution and form of government
for the meeting of the legislature of this state, several of the members of this
house accordingly met, and a sufficient number of members to proceed on business not
appearing, the house adjourned until this day, when the following members appeared, viz.
 

For SAINT-MARY's county, Mr. Raphael Neale. KENT county. Mr. James Wroth, Mr. Robert Dunn, ANNE-ARUNDEL county, Mr. Edward Hall, Mr. John Worthington. CALVERT county, Mr. William M. Carcaud, Mr. Roger B. Taney, Mr. William D. Brome. CHARLES county, Mr. Henry H. Chapman, Mr. William H. McPherson, Mr. Francis Digges. BALTIMORE county, Mr. Alexis Lemmon, Mr. Elias Brown, Mr. Thomas Love. TALBOT county, Mr. William Rose, Mr. James Nabb,

Mr. Thomas S. Denny, SOMERSET county, Mr. James C. Hyland. DORCHESTER county, Mr. Solomon Frazier, Mr. Richard Pattison, Mr. Richard Goldsborough. PRINCE-GEORGE's county, Mr. Thomas G. Addision, Mr. Allen B. Duckett, Mr. William Marbury, Mr. George Calvert. CITY of ANNAPOLIS, Mr. Allen Quynn. QUEEN-ANNE's county, Mr. Joseph Thompson, Mr. Stephen Lowrey. WORCESTER county, Mr. George Purnell, Mr. John Gunby, Mr. Isaac Franklin. FREDERICK county, Mr. Francis B. Sappington.

HARFORD county, Mr John Street, Mr. Nicholas D. McComas, Mr. Thomas Ayres, Mr. James Bond. CAROLINE county, Mr. Thomas Mason, Mr. Robert Orrell, Mr. William Boon. CITY of BALTIMORE, Mr. Archibald Buchanan, Mr. George Johonnot. WASHINGTON county, Mr. Ambrose Geoghegan, Mr. James McClain, Mr. John Cellar. MONTGOMERY county, Mr. George Riley. Mr. Elimeleck Swearingen. ALLEGANY county, Mr. John Tomlinson, Mr. Asa Beall, Mr. John Rice.

    A sufficient number of delegates being convened, they severally qualified in the presence of
each other, by taking the several oaths required by the constitution and form of government,
ascribing a declaration on their belief in the christian religion, and by taking, repeating and
ascribing, an oath to support the constitution of the United States.
    The house proceeded to ballot for a speaker, and the ballots being deposited in the ballot box,
a gentlemen named to strike retired, and after some time returned and reported, that the honourable
Henry Henley Chapman, Esquire, was unanimously elected.
    The house appointed Mr. William Harwood clerk, and Mr. John Bowie Duckett assistant clerk.
ORDERED, That they qualify as such, by taking the several oaths required, subscribing a declaration
of their belief in the christian religion, and by taking an oath that they will honestly,