INDEX 891
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                  A bill reported entitled an act to prevent free

negroes and slaves having and using boats on the

Potomac river, 471; bill passed and sent to the Sen-

ate, 812.

Order adopted that the committee on, be requested
to inquire into the expediency of the passage of a
law to sell the free and slave negroes now confined
in the Maryland Penitentiary, out of the State; the
slaves for life, and the free ones for the terra they
have to serve, the proceeds of the slaves to go to the
counties from whence they came, and the free ones
into the treasury of the State, 618.
A bill reported entitled an act for the sale of all
negroes and mulattoes, slaves and free, who are con-
victed and confined In the Maryland Penitentiary,

683.

A bill from the Senate entitled an act to extend the

provisions of an act passed at January session, 1854,

chapter 273, entitled an act to provide a remedy

against, free negroes who may hire, &c, 766; bill

passed and returned to the Senate, 766.

Petition of A. T. Dublin for permission to bring
certain slaves from Virginia into this State, referred,

Petition to allow Thomas Warfield and family to

return to this State, 29; bill reported 248; bill

475, bill rejected by the Senate, 608, 736,

737.

A bill reported entitled an act amendatory of an

                act passed at January session, 1853, chapter 194,

entitled an act for the better protection of slaveholders

several counties therein mentioned, 49; re-

committed, 104; bill passed and sent to the Senate,

589.

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

cester county, to hire out free negro or mulatto ap-

prentices, subject to the approval of the Orphans'

Court, 70; bill reported, 80; referred, ib.; enacting

            clause stricken out, 137.

Petition of H. H. Lockwood, of Anne Arundel
county for leave to bring into this State a negro boy
belonging to him, referred, 97.