INDEX.                              1011

SOCIETY, AGRICULTURAL—Memorial of the Maryland

State, asking aid to support its exhibitions, 36;
bill reported, read first time and rejected by yeas
and nays, 103.

SOCIETY, AMERICAN TRACT—Memorial asking exemp-
tion from collateral inheritance tax, referred to
committee on Ways and Means, 110.

STOCKS AND SECURITIES—Leave granted the committee
on the Judiciary to introduce a bill making il-
legal certain contracts in, as therein mentioned,
220.

See Judiciary.

SOUTH CAROLINA—Resolutions from, in relation to a
convention of the slaveholding States, touching a
convention to concur and measures for united ac-
tion, motion to lay on the table rejected, 285;
proceedings, 372, 373; message from the Gover-
nor, 396.

SOMERSET COUNTY—Petition of sundry citizens, praying
that a ferry may be established near Shelltown in,
referred to delegation from, 63.

Petition of sundry citizens of, that the game
law may be altered and changed as to, referred to
delegation from, 64.

Leave granted the delegation from, to report a
bill to allow William J. Brittingham, late sheriff
of, further time to complete his collections, 73;
passed, 683.

The bill entitled, an act to incorporate the
Farmers' and Mechanics' Marine Railway, Co., of
Sharptown, in, favorably reported and passed, 682.

An act to amend the 61st article of the public
local laws of, relating to justices of the peace and
constables, 875.

Leave granted delegation from, to report, a bill
to authorise sale of part of the almshouse pro-
perty, 34; favorable report, 61; read second time,
68; read third time and passed by yeas and nays,
77; returned from the Senate endorsed passed by
yeas and nays, 131.

Leave granted delegation from, to report a bill
establishing a new election district, 34; read first