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COLORED POPULATION—

Spencer, a free negro of Frederick county, to dispose
of his real and personal estate by last will and testa-
ment, 374; bill passed and sent to the Senate, 695.

A bill reported entitled an act to permit Minerva
Barnes, a free woman of color, of Allegany county,
to remain in the State, and to relieve her from all
penalties incurred by her removal into the State, 374;
bill passed and sent to the Senate, 695, 696.

A bill reported entitled an act for the benefit of
Ebenezer Horner, William Hammond, Ennalls Dick-
inson, Hewett Ross, William Philips, Israel Collins
and Stephen Philips, free persons of color of Caro-
line county, 400.

A bill reported entitled an act for the benefit of
Henry Byas, a free negro of color of Caroline
county, 400; bill passed and sent to the Senate, 823.

A bill reported for the benefit of Daniel Gibson, a
free man of color of Caroline county, 400; bill passed
and sent to the Senate, 745.

A bill reported for the benefit of James Wheeler,
a free person of color of Caroline county, 400; bill
amended, passed and sent to the Senate, 745, 746.

Petition from C. A. Simmons and thirty-one other
citizens of Frederick county, praying the passage of
an act prohibiting free negroes from holding schools,
referred, 406.

Petition from sundry white persons, of Baltimore,
to repeal the act that prohibits colored persons from
holding religious meetings in certain cases, re-
ferred, 407.

Memorial of John G. Hayward and others in re-
lation to the, 444, referred, 454.

A bill from the Senate, entitled an act to modify
the punishment of free negroes convicted of larceny
and other crimes in the State, 681; bill passed and
returned to the Senate, 992.

A bill from the Senate entitled an act to authorise
Zulma Marcellie to bring certain slaves and negroes
into this State, 682.

A bill entitled an act to prevent free negroes and