1008                                INDEX.

York and Cumberland Railroad company and the
            Susquehanna Railroad company, under the name

of, passed January session, 1854, chapter 25, 266;

proceedings on, 381, passed, 490.

REFUGE, HOUSE OF—Message to the Senate proposing a
             joint select committee to inquire into the affairs

and condition of the House of, 54.

Message from the Senate proposing joint com-
mittee to examine into the affairs of, &c, 90.

The bill entitled, an act to amend the 77th arti-
cle of the code of public general laws by amend-
ing the 17th section, which provides for binding
out children in, by authorising the managers to
bind them either in or out of the State, the 18th
section which directs the manner of receiving in-
mates thereto, by authorising the manner to re-
ceive the children of such parents as may desire
it, and the 21st and 22d sections which appropri-
ate and direct the payment of a sum of money
annually, for the support of the, by increasing
said sum and extending the time for payment
thereof; proceedings on, read second time and
passed, 642.
REDMEN—Petition of.

See Ways and Means, 109.

RIPARIAN PROPRIETORS—Favorable report by select com-
mittee, to add an article to the code of public gene-
ral laws under the title of, and declaratory of
their rights, bounding on the navigable waters
of this State, read first time, 465; read second
time, and by order and passed, 625.

ROADS AND HIGHWAYS, COMMITTEE ON— Petition

of Smith Foutz Roberts, praying for an act con-
demning two miles of the Hagerstown and West-
minster Turnpike, referred to, 66.

A bill to authorise the State's attornies of Anne
Arundel county, Prince George's county, Balti-
more city and Baltimore county, to institute pro-
ceedings to forfeit charter of Baltimore and Wash-
ington Turnpike road, was recommitted to the
committee on the Judiciary.

See Judiciary.

Favorable report by committee on, to make a