INDEX.                               883

CAROLINE COUNTY--
Leave to bring in a bill to authorise and direct the
Justices of the peace in, to hand over to their suc-
cessors their dockets, instead of returning them to
the clerk of the circuit court in said county, 318.

Petition of William H. Gootee and sundry other
citizens of, praying for the passage of an act to
change the name of the town of "Snow Hill" to
"Preston," 343; referred ib; bill reported, 355; bill

Passed and sent to the Senate, 575; bill returned

passed by the Senate, 696.

Petition of Ennals Hubbard, Thomas Lockerman,

Abraham Y. Collins and 50 other citizens of, in re-
lation to the present school system, referred, 343.

Leave to bring in a bill to refund a certain amount

of money overpaid to the Treasury by Win Lock-
erman, late collector of State taxes for, 353; bill re-
ported, 401.

                      Leave to bring in a bill to establish a uniform sys-

tem of education in, 363.

Petitions of citizens of, asking the Legislature not
to disturb the charter of the Farmers' and Merchants'
Bank of Greensborough, for reasons therein set forth,
referred, 405.

                     A petition of Henry Cochran and others, praying

                 an alteration in the school districts of, referred,

405.

A bill reported, entitled, an act to alter, amend and
repeal parts of the act entitled, an act to establish
primary schools in election district Nos. 3 and 4 in
446; bill passed and sent to the Senate, 601, 602;
          returned passed by the Senate, 696.

             Petition of J. E. Rochester, James H. Fountain

and 21 other citizens of, asking an act of the Legis-
lature, authorising the trustees of Denton district
                primary school in the second election district of, to

             levy such tax as they may think necessary to meet

                  the expenses of said school, referred, 633; bill re-

ported, 671.

                 A bill from the Senate entitled, an act to make

        valid the official bond of Wm. G. Nicholson, Re-

                gister of Wills of, 749; bill passed and returned to

            the Senate, 796.,