1856.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.          531

Canal, by subjecting the boat or vessel to which the debts apper-
tains to a lien of such debt;                                                               

Was read the first time and referred to the committee on Ju-
diciary.

Also, a bill entitled, an act to provide a summary mode of re-
cording the possessions of lands and tenements held by tenants
for one year, for a term of years from year to year, for a less pe-
riod, or at will, alter the expiration of the then tenancy.

Was read the first time and referred to the committee on Judi-
ciary.                                                     

And a bill entitled, an act to provide for the appointment of a
Keeper of the records of the Court of Chancery.

Was read the first time and referred to the committee on Ju-
diciary.

Also returned a bill entitled, an act amendatory to an act passed
at January session 1854 entitled, an act to provide for the open-
ing of a Docket by the Registers of Wills of this Stale, for the en-
try of claims passed by the Registers and Orphans' Courts against
deceased persons...                                                              

A bill entitled, an act to authorise the devise and bequest of
Margaret A. Ward, to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal
Churches at Kingston and Merumsco, in Somerset county.

A bill entitled, a supplement to an act, entitled, an act relating
to that portion of the Franklin Railroad lying within the State of
Maryland, providing for the appointment of Trustees for the resale
thereof.

A bill entitled, an act to fix the per diem of County Commis-
sioners, Judges of the Orphans' Court and Trustees of the Poor
of Somerset county.

A bill entitled, an additional supplement to an act passed at
December session 1838, entitled, an act to provide for the estab-
lishment of district schools in Charles county.

A bill entitled, an act for the benefit of the legal representatives
of Thomas Wolford, late a lieutenant in the army of the revolu-
tion.

A bill entitled, an act to authorize the repayment to the Messrs.
Barry, brothers & Company of certain moneys advanced by them
on account of the State of Maryland.

A bill entitled, an act appropriating a sum of money to pay
J. Mason Campbell for services rendered the State, in the trial of
the case of the State of Maryland against Isaac R. Smith, in the

Supreme Court of the United States.