INDEX.                                     923

DUNLOP'S DIGEST OF THE GENERAL LAWS OF THE
UNITED STATES—Leave to bring in a bill to
authorise the purchase of, published in the year 1856,

for the use of the State Library and the several courts

of the State, 497; bill reported, 526.

DOUGHERTY, THOS. H.—Leave to bring in a bill to author-
ise the administrator of, deceased, to pay over cer-
tain moneys for the benefit of the infants, 586; bill

           reported, 631; bill passed and sent to the Senate,

775, 776.

DORCHESTER COUNTY—Petition of John E. Applegarth,
            late sheriff of, for relief therein mentioned, 361; re-

ferred, ib.

Memorial of 46 citizens of, praying the passage of
a law creating a new school district in election dis-
           trict No. 7, in said county, to be called Franklin

            school district, referred, 361.

               Leave to bring in a bill to make valid a deed from

Charles Wood, as trustee of Joshua Wood, to Denton
Hammond, 363.

                        Unfavorable report on the petition of Levin Mo-

          bray of, praying the Legislature to refund to him a

        certain sum of money erroneously paid into the Treas-

  ury, 380; report concurred in, ib.

Petition of sundry citizens of, praying the passage

of a law prohibiting non-residents from dredging or

taking oysters from Fishing creek, or its tributaries

in said county, 400.

A bill reported entitled, an act to relieve James A.

Waddle of, from certain colonization taxes due the

State of Maryland, 229, 230; bill rejected, 415,

416; bill reconsidered, ib.; bill passed and sent to

the Senate, 782.

            Petition of citizens of, praying the passage of a

law authorising the county commissioners to levy a
sum of money to pay for the bridge over Slaughter
creek in said county, 235; bill reported, 335; bill

            passed and sent to the Senate, 574.

Petition from citizens of, praying the passage of a
law to regulate the compensation of State's Attor-
ney in, 235, bill reported, 366; bill passed and sent
to the Senate, 588; returned passed by the Senate,

682.