INDEX.                                927

FREDERICK COUNTY--

certain purposes, referred, 317; unfavorable report

on and adopted, 471.
Petition of 29 citizens of, for a law to equalize

taxation in the State, 317; referred, 318.

A bill reported to authorize the County Commis-
sioners of, at their discretion, to levy a sum of money

to construct a bridge over Tom's creek in, 321; bill
passed and sent to the Senate, 570; returned passed

by Senate, 682.                 

Petitions of citizens of, calling the attention of the
                  Legislature to the existence of private prisons in

the State known as convents, referred, 330, 331.

Petition from 146 citizens of District No. 2, pray-
          ing an act providing for holding of two polls or vo-

ting places in the town of Frederick, referred, 331;
bill reported, 403; bill passed end sent to the Senate,
597; passed by the Senate, 682.

                      Petition of citizens of, to equalize taxation in, re-

ferred, 331.

Petition of citizens of, against a law to open a
street into the barracks field, referred, 350.

Leave to bring in a bill to incorporate the Myers-

ville Brass Band in, 353; bill reported, 381; bill

          passed and sent to the Senate, 579.

        Petition of 90 citizens of, to prohibit the erection

           of private prisons. &c, referred 361.

         A bill from the Senate entitled, an act authorising

    the county commissioners of Frederick county to re-

          move from the assessment of said county, an abscon-
     ding negro man, a slave for life, now assessed to

Thomas J. Griffith, 386; bill passed and returned to

the Senate, 704, 705.

Petition of the vestry and officers of St. Paul's and
St. Matthias' Churches in, praying the passage of a
law making valid the sale or transfer of Hough's

Church in said county, referred, 449.                             

Leave to bring in a bill for the relief of the trustees

                 of the Frederick Female Seminary, 158; bill report-

                ed, 193; bill passed, 305; passed by the Senate

                 532.

              Petition of Wm. Yeakle, of, praying the Legisla-