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void all arrangements, contracts, agreements, trusts, or
combinations made with a view to lease, or which tend
to lesson free competition in the importation or sale of
articles imported into this State, or in the manufacture
or sale of articles of domestic growth, or of domestic
raw material, to declare unlawful and void all arrange-
ments, contracts, agreements, designed, or which tend to
advance, reduce or control the price of such product or
articles to producers or consumers of any such product
or article; to provide for forfeiture of the charter and
franchise of any corporation organized under the laws
of this State, violating any of the provisions of this Act;
to prohibit every -foreign corporation violating any of
the provisions of this Act, from doing business in this
State; to require the Attorney-General of this State, to
institute legal proceedings against any such corporations
violating the provisions of this Act, and to enforce the
penalties prescribed; to prescribe penalties f or any viola-
tion of this Act; to authorize any person or corporation
damaged by any such trust, agreement or combination, to
sue for the money of such damage, and for other pur-
poses: "

The Sergeant-at-Arms made the following
REPORT:

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 20th, 1900.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates:

I have duly summoned the within named James B.
Belt, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Prince George's
county, Maryland, to appear forthwith as herein com-
manded, and produce before the Election Committee the
ballots cast at the recent election in said Prince George's
county.

EDWARD F. MEEHAN,

Sergeant-at-Arms.

The Secretary of the Senate appeared and delivered
the following message:

Senate bill entitled "An Act to authorize the Mayor,
Counsellor and Aldermen of the city of Annapolis to issue
bonds to the amount $121, 000, to pay off the present