78 INDEX.

PATAPSCO RIVER—Joint Resolutions of the City Council
of Baltimore in reference to a free bridge over the,
read and referred, 312-13.

House bill to repeal A. A. 1876, Ch. 220, to
establish a free bridge over the, at Light Street
Bridge; received, read and referred, 380; report-
ed, read second time, 409; amended, read third
time and passed, 676-7.

PATTERSON, SARAH E-See Cecil County.

PEARCE, ISAAC—Petition of, to regulate the distribution-
of Isaac Pearce's (deceased) estate; read and re-
ferred, 536.

Leave for bill for the relief of Mary, Isaac and
Mary, Jr., 538.

PENITENTIARY—Order for committee to inquire by what
authority officers of, take convicts from district of
Columbia, 15; annual report of the President and
Directors of, read and referred, 20.
See Message.

House bill to amend Art. 73, Sec. 1, Code P.
G. L., title, received, read and referred, 239; re-
ported unfavorably, adopted, 282; reconsidered,
recommitted, 303; reported with amendments,
325; adopted, read third time and passed, 434.

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY—See Cumber-
land.

Leave for bill to enlarge the powers of the,
253; reported, read and recommitted, 317; report-
ed, amended, read second time, 552-6; third and
passed, 614; returned, passed, 703.

PENSIONS—Leave for bill to amend: A. A. 1870, Ch. 477,
Sec. 3, providing for, for certain widows and sol-
diers; 125.

Leave tor bill to repeal A. A. 1870, Ch. 477,
1872, Ch. 309, 1874, Chs. 305, 351, 415, A. A.
1876, Ch. 320, giving, to soldiers of 1812, and
their widows, 633; reported, read first time, 661;
second, 749; third and passed, 801; returned,
passed, 861.

Joint Committee on. See Message.

Joint Resolutions to request Maryland members
of Congress to vote for a bill now pending in Con-
gress granting to the survivors of the Mexican.