931 INDEX. 93

DRAINING LANDS—

amend article 28 of the Code of Public General
Laws in relation to, 96; read the second time,
380; read the third time and passed, 387; sent to
the House, 388; returned passed 667.

DROVERS—Leave granted to report a bill, to repeal the 87,
88 and 89th sections of article 14, of the Public
Local, Laws of Kent county, title, 37; bill report-
ed, and read the first time, 160; read the second
and third times, and passed, 253; sent to the
House, ib.; returned passed, 322.

Leave granted to report a bill to require, pass-
ing through Kent county, to have their cattle
marked, 38; bill reported and read the first time,
160; read the second time, 212; read the third
time, and passed, 234; sent to the House, ib.; re-
turned passed, 320.

DRUM, PHILIP—House bill to relieve the security of, of
New Orleans, read and referred, 479; reported
without amendment, and read the second time,
506; read the third time, and passed, 656; re-
turned to the House, ib.

DUKE, NATHANIEL, GEORGE W. DOWELL, THOS.
B, BILLINGSLEY, AND RICHARD HANCE—
House bill for the relief of, administrators of
William Billingsley, read and referred, 424; re-
ported without amendment, and read the second
time, 506; read the third time, and passed, 568;
returned to the House, ib.

DYER, J. & CO.—Unfavorable report upon the memorial
of, 630.

E.

EARLE, JAMES T.—Senator elect, appeared and quali-
fied, 3.

Assumed the duties of the Chair, 15.
Elected President pro tempore, 174.

EAST NEW MARKET— House bill to extend the time
allowed the citizens of, in Dorchester county, to