INDEX 885

CECIL COUNTY—                                           

money, over and above the amount now allowed for
the support of David Marsh, an insane pauper, of
said county, 468.

Petition of Jas. Barnes and twenty other citizens of
Port Deposit, in Cecil county, asking that a commit-
tee may be appointed to investigate the condition of
the old Maryland canal, and report thereon, 317;
referred ib.

Petition of 52 citizens of the second election dis-
trict of, praying the passage of a law authorising the

county commissioners of said county to build a
draw bridge over Back creek, at or near Chesapeake

city, and to levy for the same, 318; referred, ib.;

bill reported, 335; bill passed, 573; passed by he
Senate, 751.

           Leave to bring in a bill to authorise the county com-

missioners of, to build a draw bridge in said county,
and to levy a sum of money to pay for the same,
334.

Petition of thirty-three citizens of, for the passage
of a law to restrain the granting of licenses in this

State; referred, 448.

                    Petition of sundry citizens of, for the privilege of

selling and conveying a certain school lot belonging

to the West Nottingham Meeting of the Society of

Friends, 448; referred, ib.

Petition of citizens of, in favor of chartering the

     Columbia and Port Deposite Rail Road Company ;

         referred, 448.                   

                  A bill reported, to incorporate the Cecil County Rail

           Road Company in, 453.

                  Leave to bring in a bill to authorise the sale of a

              certain lot of ground in, 495; bill reported, 496.

                  A bill reported, to aid in the construction of a

rail road in, 526.

A bill to authorise and empower Joseph Phelps, to
build a wharf in Elk Neck, Cecil county, 575; bill
passed and sent to the Senate, 575; returned passed
by the Senate, 751.

A bill from the Senate, entitled, an act granting

the leave of the Legislature to a devise in the last

will and testament of Peter Turner, free negroes of

Cecil county, to the trustees of West Nottingham