890                                   INDEX.             

COLORED POPULATION—
lumbia, 203; bill passed 290; passed by the Senate;

550.

              A bill reported to authorise William T. G. Polk,

administrator of Arnold Cottman, free negro, to exe-

cute a deed of manumission for certain slaves therein

               mentioned, 203.

A bill reported to amend and explain an act rela-
ting to free negroes in Kent, Cecil and Queen Anne's
counties, passed December session, 1849, chapter
538, 208; bill amended, 255-'6; bill passed 310;
passed by the Senate with amendments, 552; amend-
ments assented to and bill passed, 553.

A bill from the Senate to empower William Wash-

ington Carlile and Gustavus Carlile, free negroes re-

siding in Harford county, to navigate their vessel or

vessels as masters thereof, to and from the city of

Baltimore and the head waters of the Bush and Gun-

powder rivers, 358; bill rejected, 445-'6.

A bill reported for the relief of Daniel Myers,

Levin Wheatley and Edward J. Wheatley, free

negroes of the city of Baltimore, 382.

A bill reported relating to slaves and free negroes

in Kent county, 430; bill passed and sent to the Sen-
ate, 730.                                             

A bill reported for the relief of Susan Smallwood,
           a free negro woman of the District of Columbia, 431;

bill passed and sent to the Senate, 490, 491; returned
Passed by the Senate, 793.

                A bill reported for the relief of Sophia Conway, a

            free negro of Baltimore county, 433.                 

A bill from the Senate to authorise life commis-
missioners of Harford county to sell or manumit cer-
tain negro slaves belonging to said county, 128; re-

ferred, ib.; favorable report on, 137; bill passed, 440, '1.

              Leave to bring in a bill to allow Charlotte A.

Wheat, a free colored woman, to remain in the State,
450; bill reported, 458; bill passed and sent to the
Senate, 835, 836.

Leave to bring in a bill entitled an additional
supplement to the act of 1831, chapter 323, entitled
an act relating to free negroes, 450; bill reported,
524.