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1876.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 1585
All work ceased upon the road after the last payment to
the Company by the State of Maryland, and has not been re-
sumed. The Company is now in the hands of receivers ap-
pointed by the Circuit Court for Prince George's county.
The undersigned would further state, that Scaoot testified
that he had paid to secure this subscription and the money
realized from it, but declined to state the amounts so paid or
to whom paid. He also stated that these payments had not
been made to any State or county official. As the Commit-
tee did not insist upon his answering these questions, but ad-
journed, and failed to procure the presence of Messrs. Davis
and Woolford, who made the payments, and Messrs. Sloan,
Baldwin and the members of the firm of Alexander, Brown
& Sons, who received the money, the undersigned can only
say that in their opinion the Committee has failed to carry
out the instructions of your honorable bodies as set forth in
the third clause of said resolutions.
The undersigned would recommend the subject to the at-
tention of the next General Assembly of the State.
The undersigned would respectfully add, that in relation
to the first clause of the resolutions under which the Com-
mittee acted, they report, that the subscription of the Treas-
urer of this State to the capital stock of the Southern Mary-
land Railroad, was induced to be made by the false and frau-
dulent statements contained in an affidavit of Samuel S.
Smoot, dated October 19th, 1872.
Second. That of the sum of $163,000, one-half thereof was
induced to be paid by the Treasurer of theState by the false and
fraudulent statements of Samuel S. Smoot, Hamilton G. Faat
and Chas. H. Winder, contained in a certain affidavit made by
them February 6th, 1873. That the additional sum of $815.00
was paid to the assignees of said Company by the Treasurer
of the State on the warrant of the Comptroller, without, any
evidence whatever, and that the whole of said sum of
$163.000 was paid to the assignees of said Company on the
warrants of the Comptroller without the proof required by
the Acts of 1868, chaps. 454 and 150.
Third. That by the adjournment of the Committee as here-
inbefore set forth, they have been unable to ascertain the dis-
position made by the Company or its officers of the said sum
of $163.00.
Fourth. By reason of the refusal of the Committee to sum-
mon and examine the necessary witnesses, the undersigned
cannot say positively whether any other person than the State
of Maryland is a bona fide stockholder in the Company, but
the undersigned believe from the absence of such testimony
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