958                                      INDEX.

SIMPLIFY AND ABRIDGE THE RULES OF PRACTICE—

pleading and practice in the Courts as Courts of
Equity, 266; bill passed, 439, 440.

               Petition of the Commissioners appointed to, ask-

                 ing compensation for their services, 397.

                 A bill from the Senate, entitled an act to simplify,

                 the rules and forms of practice in the Courts of law,

405; bill passed, 645, 646.

A bill reported to simplify and amend the law of
attachment, 433; bill passed and sent to the Senate,
678.

A bill reported, entitled, an act to appropriate a
sum of money to pay William Price, Samuel Tyler
and Frederick Stone, as commissioners appointed to
revise, simplify and abridge the rules of practice, &c.
671; proceedings on bill, 851, 852, 853; bill passed
and sent to the Senate, 853.

SINKING FUND—Resolution offered to appoint a joint com-

               mittee of the two houses, to examine and destroy the

bonds purchased by the Treasurer for the use of the,

          as also the coupon certificates of interest which have

been cancelled, 300.

SLAVEHOLDERS—A bill from the Senate, entitled an act to
               repeal an act passed at January session, 1854, ch.

                 194, entitled an act for the better protection of, in

the several counties therein mentioned, 358; bill

passed and sent to the Senate, 589.

SLAVERY—Resolutions on the subject of, offered 318, 319;

                 substitute offered, 538, 539; substitute offered for the

substitute, 539; rejected 540; substitute for the reso-
lutions adopted, 541.

SMITH, GEORGE—A bill from the Senate to change the name
of, to William Clark Funk, 74; bill passed, 121.

SNYDER, WILLIAM—A bill from the Senate, appropriating
a sum of money for the payment of, for services ren-
dered the State, 245; bill rejected 408; reconsidered,
408; bill reported with amendments, 469; bill passed
and returned to the Senate, 647, 648.

SOMERSET COUNTY—Leave given to introduce a bill to di-
vide Brinkley's Election District, No. 6, in, 9; bill
reported, 49; bill passed, 61; passed by the Senate,
79.
Leave given to bring in a bill to authorise Law-