940                                 INDEX.             

KENT COUNTY—Memorial of H. Becks and thirty other cit-
izens of, praying the erection of a new school district
in said county referred, 190.
                 

A bill reported entitled an act to authorise the Or-

phans' Court of, and Justices of the Peace binding

out negro children, to regulate freedom dues to the

apprentices and secure a compensation to the parents

or other persons for raising such children, 191; bill

amended, 272; bill passed, 411; passed by the Sen-

ate, 549, 550.

A bill reported to rehear and re-examine the ques-
tion of damages on the road to Mrs. Ann Brown's
landing, 191; bill amended, 279; bill passed, 309.

A bill reported entitled an act to authorise the coun-
ty commissioners of, to make, establish, alter and
clear public landing places of said county, 191; bill
passed, 309; passed by the Senate, 550.

A bill reported entitled an act to repeal an act pas-

sed January session, 1854, chapter 262, entitled an

act imposing a tax on dogs to protect the raising of

sheep in, 208; bill passed, 412; passed by the Sen-

ate, 608.                                   

Petition of citizens of, praying a prohibitory license
law in, 220.

Leave to bring in a bill entitled an act to amend
an act passed at January session, 1853, entitled an
act to law off, open and locate a public road in, lead-
ing from Chester to Quaker Neck, 234; bill reported,
288; referred, ib.; unfavorable report on, 365.

A bill reported entitled an act to appoint a special

police for, 278; bill rejected, 357; reconsidered, 358;

bill passed, 407; passed by the Senate with amend-

ment, 551; bill passed as amended, 551.

Leave to bring in a bill to prevent swine from go-
ing at large in the Head of Sassafras and its vicinity,
in, 318; bill reported, 335, 336; bill passed and sent

to the Senate, 574; passed by the Senate, 793.
                                                                         

Memorial of 47 citizens of, to have a Weigher of
Wheat in the City of Baltimore, referred, 332.
Petition of Garey H. Leverton, to open the judg-
ment of the court in a certain case in, referred, 351.