1900. ] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 1335

for taxes erroneously collected from the said William C.
Satterfield, and paid into the Treasury of the State. "

Which was read a first time.

Mr. Knott, from Committee on Corporations, reported
favorably, with proposed amendment,

House bill entitled "'An Act to repeal and re-enact with
amendments sections 1 and 3 of chapter 540 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland, 1894, being an
Act to authorize the Great Falls Power Company to
erect dams, hold real estate and to erect and maintain for
the transmission of electricity in Montgomery and Prince
George's counties, in the State of Maryland, and to add
an additional section thereto, to be called 'Section 3 A, '
grant certain additional powers, rights and privileges
unto the said Great Falls Power Company. "

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.
By Corporation Committee.

"That the acceptance of this Act shall oblige and bind
the said Great Falls Power Company not to take, occupy,
use, interfere with or damage any property or right ves-
ted in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, acquired
as the successor of the Potomac Company or otherwise,
and not to endanger any part of the Canal, or works of
said Canal Company, in any degree by liability to flood
except by or under written agreements between the said
power company on the one part and the said Canal Com-
pany and the trustees for the time being of the bond hold-
ers of said Canal Company under its mortgages of 1848 and
1878, on the other part, and approved by the Board of
Public Works, and as a condition precedent to the exercise
of the right herein granted to build a dam or other struc-
ture aforesaid, the said power company shall file with the
Board of Public Works a survey and plan of the same
showing its location, elevation and construction as pro-
posed and provided, also that nothing herein contained
shall be so construed as to authorize and empower the
Great Falls Power Company to interfere with the vested
property rights of the Montgomery Power Company. "

Which was read a first time.

Mr. Knott, from Committee on Corporations, reported
unfavorably,