1380 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 26

Also,

Senate bill entitled "An Act to repeal and re-enact
with amendments, sections 43 and 51, of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, 1898, chapter 123, Arti-
cle 4, of the Code of Local Laws, title 'Baltimore City, '
sub-title 'Charter, ' relating to the collection of taxes. "

Which was read a first time and referred to the Balti-
more city delegation.

Also,

Senate bill entitled "An Act to repeal and re-enact with
amendments chapter 326, of the Acts of 1890, entitled
au Act to amend the charter of and grant additional
powers to the Centenary Biblical Institute of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church of Baltimore city, a corporation
Incorporated under the General Laws of Maryland. "

Which was read a first time and referred to the Com-
mittee on Corporations.

BILLS—SECOND READING.

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 lines for
the transmission of electricity in Montgomery and Prince
George 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. "

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.
By Committee on Corporations,

Amend section 1, by striking out all after the word
''however" in line 23, and inserting the following:

"That the acceptance of this Act shall oblige and bind
the Great Falls Power Company not to take, occupy, use,
interfere with or damage, any property or right vested
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