INDEX. 965

TALBOT COUNTY—

Petition from Joseph Bruff and others, trustees of

the Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage in,

to sell the old parsonage and premises and purchase

a new one, 276, referred, ib.; bill reported, 287; bill

passed and sent to the Senate, 565.

Petition of Mary Adeline Stephens of, praying a
divorce a vinculo matrimonii from her husband, Hoo-
per B. Stephens, 276; referred, 276; unfavorable re-
port on, and adopted, 286, 287.
Petition of Richard Thomas and other citizens of,
to allow one Joseph Bantum (free-negro) to return to
the State of Maryland, 276; referred, ib.

Petition of Samuel P. Dickinson and others of the

town of Trappe in, praying the passage of an act to

incorporate the said town, referred, 284; leave to

bring in a bill, 363; bill reported, 383; bill passed
and sent to the Senate, 563.

a bill reported to authorise the Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court for, to have certain record books in his of-
fice rebound, 292; bill passed and lent to the Senate,
567, 568.

            Petition of 314 citizens of, in favor of the Eastern

Shore Railroad, &c, referred, 361.

Petition of citizens of, praying an endowment for
the Military Academy at Oxford in, referred, 362;
         bill reported, 473; bill amended, 823.

Petition of John Clark and three other citizens of the

town of Trappe in, stating their opposition to an act

                of incorporation, 284; bill reported, 384; bill passed

                 and sent to the Senate, 593; bill returned passed by

                 the Senate, 849.

           Petition of citizens of, for the relief of Joseph

           Bunton, (free-negro,) referred, 700.

                   Petition of sundry citizens of, praying the passage

              of an act to authorise the county commissioners to

grant an increase of compensation to the Crier of
of the Circuit Court for said county, referred, 700.

                   Petition of sundry citizens of election district, No.

             2 in, praying for an additional magistrate in said dis-

              trict, referred, 700; bill reported, 724; bill passed

                 and sent to the Senate, 733; returned passed with

proposed amendment, 846; bill passed as amended,

846.