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287. An act for the benefit of the public schools of the city of
Baltimore.

288. An act to regulate the issuing of license to free negroes
and mulattoes, and to prevent their employment as clerks in Som-
erset, Worcester and Anne Arundel counties.

289. An act to authorise the county commissioners for Dorches-
ter county to adopt and use as evidence of the ownership of assess-
able properly in the said county, for the purpose of taxation, the for-
mer assessment list of 1851, now in the hands of the collectors.
290. An act to provide for the per diem allowance of the judges

of the Orphans' court of Anne Arundel county.

291. An act declaring it a misdemeanor to remove sand or gra-
vel from the shores of the Potomac river.

292. An act allowing to Nancy Coward, widow of William
Coward, a Lieutenant in the American Revolution, a pension, and
appropriating a sum of money for the payment thereof.

293. An act to incorporate the Mount Vernon Hotel company
in the city of Baltimore.

294. An act to incorporate the St. Mary's Savings Institution.

295. A supplement to an act entitled, an act to erect a town in

Talbot county, by the name of St. Michael's, passed at November

session, 1804, chapter 82.

296. An act to authorise the mayor and city council of Balti-
more, to appropriate a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars for
removing the obstructions from the bed of the Patapsco river, by
taxation or otherwise.

297. An act relating to non-resident guardians of infants living
out of this Slate, and having property therein in the hands of trus-
tees appointed by will.

298. An act to authorise certain trustees, or their successors, or
the survivor of them, to sell and convey the parsonage house and
lot of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the Church Hill circuit,
and to purchase another parsonage house and lot with the proceeds

of said sale.

299. An act to compensate the families of persons killed by the
wrongful act, neglect or default of another person.

300. An act to pay to the Captain of the Eckhart Light Artillery
company, a sum of money for repairs to gun carriages belonging
to the State, and for harness.

301. An act to authorise searches of and abstracts to be taken
from the records of the late orphans' court for Baltimore county,
by the register of wills for said county.

302. An act for the erection of a hospital for the insane in this
State.

303. An act to authorise William Ott of Frederick county, to
sell his negro man Resin Thomas, a slave for a term of years, be-
yond the limits of this State.

304. An act to incorporate the Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick
Rail Road company.