586 INDEX.

ACTS OF ASSEMBLY AMENDED AND CON-
TINUED IN FORCE—

PG.

CH.

out and establish a new election district in
Somerset county, to be called election district

number fourteen, or Lawson's district,

Act amendatory of an act entitled, an act
to continue the corporate existence of the
several bonking institutions therein men-
tioned, passed at the January session, 1853,

185

117

chapter 441, so far as relates to the Mer-
chants Bank of Baltimore,

Act amendatory of an act, passed at Jan-
uary session, 1854, chapter 172, entitled an
act to regulate the fisheries in the waters of
the Potomac river, within the jurisdiction of

192

123

Maryland, and to protect the breed of fish
therein,

Act amendatory of the act entitled, an act
incorporate the Lonaconing Ocean Coal
Mining and Transportation Company, passed
January session, 1853, chapter 192, chang-

198

130

ing the name of said corporation,

Act to amend an act entitled, an act to
authorise the appointment of commissioners
to take acknowledgements of deeds and in-
struments of writing under seal, out of the
State of Maryland, passed December ses-

202

136

sion, 1837, chapter 97,

Act to amend an act entitled, an act to
incorporate the Neptune Mutual Insurance

250

151

Company of Baltimore,

Act to amend and explain an act relating
to free negroes in Cecil, Kent and Queen
Anne's counties, passed at December ses-

282

160

sion, 1849, chapter 538,

Act to amend an act entitled, an act to
amend and modify the primary school sys-

283

161

tem in Charles county,

Act to alter, amend and repeal parts of
the act entitled, an act to establish primary
schools in election districts numbers three

290

169

and four, in Caroline county,

291

170