INDEX.                                    1063

FREDERICK COUNTY—

Petition of James H. Maynard and nineteen other
citizens, praying the passage of an act making it ob-
ligatory on county and district officers to suppress all

          negro night meetings, whether religious or otherwise,

          referred, 228.

A bill reported, entitled an act authorising the
County Commissioners of, to remove from the assess-
ment list of said county, two absconding negro men,
slaves for life, now assessed to Abdiel Unkefer, 337;
bill passed and sent to the Senate, 895.

Petition of sundry citizens of, asking that James
Spencer, a free negro of said county may be allowed
to hold real estate, and that the same may descend to
his family after his death, unless otherwise disposed
of by his last will and testament, referred, 360.

Petition from Lewis Crawford and others, citizens
of School District, No. 1, in, praying the passage of
an act authorising the sale of the school house in
said district, referred, 360.

A bill from the Senate, entitled an act to incorpo-
rate the Mutual Insurance Company of, 683.

Leave to bring in a bill to grant the leave of the
Legislature to a bequest of Elizabeth C. Wooten,
late of, deceased, to the vestry of Zion Parish, in
said county, 372.

Leave to bring in a bill to incorporate the Colum-
bia Lodge, No. 50., of Ancient, Free and Accepted
Masons of, 372.

Petition of citizens of, for the passage of a law.
prohibiting free. negroes from holding schools, re-
                  ferred, 406.

Petition to increase the powers of the Surveyor of,
referred, 407.

Petition of W. L. Hays and one hundred and sev-
en other citizens of, praying the passage of an act
to enlarge the jurisdiction of Justices or the Peace,
referred, 473.

A bill from the Senate, entitled an act to provide
for the public execution of malefactors, convicted and