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allegany county—

to provide the rate of compensation for his work, re-
ferred, 117; bill passed and returned to the Senate,
354.

Petition of eighty-nine citizens of, praying the
passage of a law to prohibit the bringing of suits be-
fore Justices of the Peace of said county, elsewhere
than in the election district where the debtor or de-
fendant resides, 197; referred, 198; leave to bring
in a bill, 200.

Petition of Charles H. McBlair for the passage of
a law authorising the commissioners of, to reduce the
assessment of a tract of land in said county, referred,
198; leave to bring in a bill, 200; bill reported, 244;
bill passed and sent to the Senate, 532.

Leave to bring in a bill to refund to Horace Resley,
of, money erroneously paid into the Treasury, 200 ;
bill reported, 335; sent to the Senate, 532.

Leave to bring in a bill to prohibit the proprietors
of mineral lands in, 214; bill reported, 245; bill
passed and sent to the Senate, 533.

A bill from the Senate entitled an act to amend the
act passed December session, 1849, chapter 375, re-
ducing the tax on the auction licenses for, 15; bill
passed and returned to the Senate, 570, 571.

Leave to bring in a bill to make valid an assign-
ment of conveyance from Elijah Evans to A. Wil-
liams, for certain lots of ground in, 94; bill reported
233.

Leave to bring in a bill entitled an act to indemnify
Joseph Sprigg of, for the loss of his negro man
George, who was murdered by a mob at Williamsport
on the 20th day of June, 1853, through default of the
civil authorities to preserve the peace, 312; bill re-
ported, 365.

Petition of Thomas Paxton and twenty-five other
citizens of, praying a speedy adjustment of the boun-
dary line between Maryland and Virginia, referred,
327.

Petition from George Deneen and other citizens of,
praying for an increase of the per diem of the crier