1900.] OF' THE SENATE. 867

‘Corporations,' sub-title ‘Railroads,' to follow section 193,
$o be known as ‘Section 193 A."
Which was read the second time.

Mr. Crothers, from Committee on Finance, reported
favorably, with proposed amen dment,

Senate bill No, 123, entitled "An Act to waive and re-
lease all the liens of' the State of Maryland, upon the
corpus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, upon its tolls
and revenues, in favor of certain creditors of the Canal
Company."

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Strike out all of said bill after the word "Maryland”
in line 1 of section 1, and insert in lieu thereof the fol-
lowing:

"That the provisions of the aforesaid Act of the Gen-
eral Assembly, known as chapter 136 1/2 of the Acts of
1896, be and the same are hereby extended, continued
and made operative in favor of all the creditors of said
canal company who have heretofore filed their claims with
the said Charles A. Little, Auditor, but who were in-
nocently under the impression that in so filling their
claims, they had complied with all the requirements
of law so as to entitle their said claim to the ben-
efit of the said Act of 1896, chapter 136 1/2 and the
said creditors, upon complying with the provisions of
this Act shall be entitled to all the benefits of the said.
Act of 1896 as though they had complied with the pro-
vieions thereof, and if their said claims were not, on the
1st day of September, 1896, under the provisions of said
Act, barred by limitations or laches, then no laches shall
be imputed to them, or either of them, for on account of
the lapse of time from said date to the date of the filing
of their said claims as hereinafter provided, they shall
stand precisely as though they had filed their said claims
under the sajd Act of 1896.

"Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That to avail themselves of
the provisions of this Act it shall be necessary for the
said creditors for whose benefit the said Act of 1896, is
extended to file their said claims with the Circuit Court
for Washington county as a court of equity on or before
Sept. 1, 1900, and to satisfy the said Court that they