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PITTSBURG AND CONNELLSVILLE RAIL-

ROAD COMPANY— Act to authorise the

Mayor and City Councilmen of the city of

Cumberland, to become a purchaser and

stockholder in the, to issue bonds, &c.,

21

21

POOR — Act to provide for the appointment of the

trustees for the, by the county commis-

sioners for Frederick county, for the appoint-

ment of Keeper of the poor's house, by the

trustees for the, and to specify their pow-

ers and duties,

110

96

POTOMAC IRON AND BRIDGE COMPANY—

Act to incorporate the,

472

303

POTOMAC RIVER— Act amendatory of an act

passed at January session, 1854, chapter

172, entitled, an act to regulate the fisheries

in the waters of the, within the jurisdiction

of Maryland, and to protect the breed of

fishe therein,

198

131

Act to cede to the United States the jur-

isdiction of the State of Maryland, in, to,

and over Hog Island, in the,

443

284

PLEADINGS AND PRACTICE IN THE

COURTS OF LAW— Act to simplify the

rules and forms of

139

112

POCOMOKE RIVER— Act amendatory of an act

passed at January session, 1853, chapter

80, entitled, an act to amend the act enti-

tled, an act for cleaning1 out the Pocomoke

river, in Worcester county, by means of a

lottery, passed December session, 1840,

chapter 215,

412

254

POLK, WILLIAM T. G.—Act to authorise, admi-

nistrator of Arnold Cottman, free negro, to

execute a deed of manumission for certain

slaves therein mentioned,

88

72

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH— Act entitled, an act

to amend an act to incorporate the, in the

the city of Baltimore,

514

331

PRESTON COAL AND IRON COMPANY, OF

THE STATE OF VIRGINIA— Act to

recognise the, as a corporation, and autho-

rising it to exercise the powers and privi-