1032                                        INDEX.

COLORED POPULATION—

lation of our State holding camp or protracted meet-
ings, 46.

Leave to bring in a bill for the better regulation
and disposition of the free negro population of this
State, 46.

Leave to bring in a bill authorising the sale of all
free negroes who may be convicted of felony or lar-
ceny in the State of Maryland, 93.

Memorial of John Savin, praying to be allowed to
remove a negro woman from the State of Virginia to
Washington county, Maryland, referred, 109.

Leave to bring in a bill authorising Charles A.
McCoy to remove a negro slave from the State of
Mississippi to Cecil county, in this State, 214; bill
reported, 411.

Leave to bring in a bill to alter and amend the ex-
isting acts relating to the manumission of slaves in
this State, 214; bill referred, ib. reported on, 411; bill
passed and sent to the Senate, 485.

Petition from sundry citizens of Dorchester county,
asking the enactment of a law providing for the sale
of free negroes and mulattoes for the payment of debts
contracted by them, referred, 238.

Report of the Committee on Colored Population,
to whom was referred the petition of John Savin,
asking to be allowed to remove into this State his
negro woman, &c, 298.

Petition of Edward Miles and others, citizens of
Charles county, in reference to the preventing free
negroes and slaves from having and using boats on
the Potomac river, referred, 310; bill reported, 639.

Petition from William Townsend and sundry citi-
zens of Talbot county, praying that Andrew Moore,
a free negro of said county, may be allowed to hold
real estate and devise the same by last will and tes-
tament, referred, 326, 327

Leave to bring in a bill to compel negro plaintiffs
to give security for payment of costs in certain
cases, 332.

A bill reported entitled an act to authorise James