INDEX,                                  1031

COLORED POPULATION—

real and personal estate by will and testament or other-
wise, 24; bill reported, 202, bill passed and sent to
the Senate, 351; returned, passed by the Senate, 554,
555.

Leave to bring in a bill for the protection and en-
couragement of the institution of negro slavery in
this State, by exempting a reasonable amount of slave
property from execution for debt, 25.

Leave to bring in a bill to prevent slaves from gain-
ing their freedom in certain cases, 26; bill reported
and passed and sent to the Senate, 482.

Memorial of Joseph A. Dugdale and others, of Ches-
ter county, Pennsylvania, in relation to free negroes,
referred, 27.

Petition of the citizens of Caroline county, asking
a law to enable William Hammond, a free negro, to
hold real estate, referred, 31.

Petition of Levi Rodgers, a free colored man to run
a vessel in Maryland, without a white man on board,
35; laid on the table, ib.

Petition of James T. Kenney and sixty-eight citi-
zens of Caroline and Dorchester counties, to allow
Stephen Philips, a free negro and his children to hold
real estate, referred, 44.

Petition of sundry citizens of Caroline county, to
authorise Israel Collins, a free negro to hold and dis-
pose of certain real estate, referred, 44.

Petition of sundry citizens of Caroline county to
allow Levin D. Collins and Horace Thomas, free ne-
groes, to hold real estate and passed the title ther of
to his children, referred, 44.

Petition of sundry citizens of Caroline and Dor-
chester counties to authorise Stephen S. Prentiss
and Henry S. Prentiss, free negroes of Caroline
county, to pass the title of their real estate to their
children, referred, 44.

Leave to bring in a bill for the sale and distribu-
tion, under the order of the Orphans' Court of Tal-
bot county, of the real estate of John Banks, a free
negro, 46; bill reported, passed and sent to the
Senate, 887.

Leave to bring in a bill relative to the negro popu-