261. An act for the relief of William Seymour a free negro in
Talbot county.

262. An act imposing a tax on dogs to protect the raising of
sheep in Kent county.

263. An act to authorise the trustees of the poor of Dorchester
county, to sell and convey the farm whereon the Poor House is
now located and buy another site and erect buildings suitable for
the wants of the poor of said county.

264. An act to incorporate the Farmers and Merchants Steam-
boat company of Nanticoke river.

265. An act to incorporate the Patterson Copper Manufactur-
ing and Mining company of Maryland.

266. An act to refund to the securities of John R. Driver, col-
lector of State tax for Queen Anne's county, certain monies er-
roneously paid by them to the Treasurer of Maryland.

267. An act to pay to Elizabeth Rich, a sum of money due her
mother, Priscilla Connelly.

263. An act to incorporate the Potomac Coal and Iron com-
pany.

269. An act to provide for the payment of costs in removed
cases.

270. An act to regulate the compensation of the State's Attorney
for Frederick county, in criminal cases removed to said county for
trial.

271. An act in relation to the Academy funds for Carroll
county.

272. An act to provide for the more effectual protection of oysters
in the waters of Dorchester county.

273. An act to provide a remedy against free negroes, who may
hire for a stipulated period to any person and quit the service of
such person after entering on the same, and to provide a remedy
against persons who may employ such free negroes with the knowl-
edge that they had previously hired to another or engaged in ano-
ther's service.

274. An act to incorporate the Maryland and Delaware Rail
Road company.

275. An act to increase the pay for labor on the public roads in
Caroline county.

276. An act authorising the commissioners of Prince George's
county, to sell the tobacco inspection warehouses at Upper Marl-
boro', Nottingham and Magruder's Ferry.

277. A further supplement to the act of eighteen hundred and
forty, chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, entitled a supplement
to an act, entitled an act to prevent obstructions in Smith's and
other private docks in the city of Baltimore.