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1.   A bill to repeal the colonization tax law;

2.  A bill to prohibit all future manumission, and prevent
negroes from becoming free by deed or will executed since the
12th day of March, 1832;

3.  A bill, that all negroes which have heretofore become free
by deed or will, since 12th of March, 1832, shall leave the
State or become slaves;

4.  A bill to prevent free negroes from coming into this
State, and prohibiting any free negro returning to this State
after departing therefrom, excepting the District of Columbia
and the State of Virginia from the operation of said bill, and
providing adequate penalties for its enforcement;

5.  A bill embodying a perfect system of hiring out all ne-
groes within the State of Maryland, and binding out their
children;

6.  A bill to establish a police system, to enforce the provi-
sions of said bill;                             

7.  A bill authorising any free negro to renounce his or her
freedom before the Circuit court of the county where he re-
sides, guarding him or her against fraud and imposition;

8.  A bill prohibiting free negroes from hereafter taking-
land by purchase or descent, and providing that all lands and
realty now held by free negroes shall rest in their representa-
tives as personalty;

Which was read, and,                         

On motion of Mr. Ford,
Made the order of the day for Wednesday next.             

Mr. Ford presented the following :

Ordered, That the clerk of the Criminal court of Baltimore
city report to this House, on or before the 15th instant, the
number of indictments for murder, manslaughter and assaults
with intent to murder, found in said court during the years
1856-'57-'58-'59, the names of the parties indicted, and the
disposition made of the several cases;

Also, ordered, That hereafter the daily meetings of this
House shall be at 10 o'clock A. M., except Mondays, which
shall be at 12 o'clock, M., and that evening sessions shall be
held on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, at 7½ o'clock
P. M., for the exclusive consideration of local bills; and that
immediately upon the meetings of the House for evening ses-
sions the counties shall be called in. their order, and upon