934 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 15

of officers, wages of employees, repairs and maintenance
of plant, taxes, interest on present bonded debt of said
company, cash to be set aside as a sinking fund for the
redemption of said bonded debt at maturity, not exceed-
ing one per cent. of said bonded debt, and other neces-
sary and lawful changes. Said proceedings to be
instituted against said Consolidated Gas Company of
Baltimore city by the Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore as a large consumer of gas furnished to it by said
company on its own behalf, or jointly with other con-
sumers of gas, to restrain said company from the collec-
tion of any greater charge than the price of f 1 per thous-
and cubic feet fixed by this Act; the answer of said com-
pany to be filed within ten days after the institution of
said proceedings against it, and the testimony to be taken
and returned to court within three months, either party
to be entitled to appeal from the decree of the court be-
low to the Court of Appeals, and the appeal to be heard
at the term next succeeding the transmission of the
record, the costs of the proceedings to be paid by said
Consolidated Gas Company of Baltimore city. "

Mr. Knott submitted the following minority report.

REPORT.

We the undersigned, minority members of the Cor-
poration Committee respectfully submit that we dissent
from the majority report, with amendments on the Gas
Bill, being in favor of reporting the bill favorably as it
came from the Senate, and offer the Senate bill, printed
No. 5, as a substitute for the majority report.

A. LEO KNOTT,
Chairman of Committee.
O. G. MARTENET.

Mr. Knott moved that the majority and minority re-
ports be made the Order of the Day for Monday night
next, at 8. 30 P. M.

Which motion was rejected.

The question then recurring upon the adoption of the
minority report,

Same was considered, and

Rejected by yeas and nays, as follows: