INDEX.                     889

COLORED POPULATION—

Leave to bring in a bill to permit Arnold Pitts,
free negro, to return to the State of Maryland, 19;
bill reported, 33; bill passed, 44; passed by the Sen-
ate with amendment, 87; amendment adopted, ib.

            Petition of Mary Wilson, colored, praying the pas-

sage of a law authorising the clerk of Howard county,
to issue certificates of manumission to her and her
four children, referred 23.

                  Leave to bring in a bill to allow George W. Hall,

                  of the State of Virginia, to remove to that State negro

Tom, a slave, for a term of years, 25; bill reported,
431; bill passed and sent to the Senate, 801.

A bill reported for the relief of Ellen White, gen-
erally known as Ellen Savoy, a free negro woman of
Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, 248; bill

rejected, 461.

Leave to bring in a bill to give Daniel Hubbard, a

        free negro of Caroline county the privilege of devi-

sing certain property in Dorchester and Caroline

counties, 263.

Leave to bring in a bill for the more perfect regis-

tration of the, of this State, and for the augmentation

of the school fund of the several counties therein, 263;

bill reported, 323.

Leave to bring in a bill to permit persons in Wor-

cester county to hire out her negro or mulatto appren-

tices, subject to the approval of the orphans' court

of, 70; bill reported, 80; bill amended, 311; bill

passed and sent to the Senate, 324; passed by the

Senate, 550.

A bill reported relating to free negroes and slaves,

320; enacting clause stricken out, 394.

Petition of Charles Goldsborough to allow a certain

free negro to return to this State, referred, 126; un-
favorable report on and adopted, 248.

A bill reported to authorise William M. Kemp and
others to emancipate certain slaves, with permission
            to said slaves when emancipated to remain in this

              State, 203.

              A bill reported for the relief of Mahala Jones, a

free negro woman of Washington city, district of Co.

            lumbia, and her children, also of the district of Co-