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Mr. Chambers submitted the following amendment to the
amendment:
Strike out all after the word "Treasurer, " in the first line
of amendment, and insert the words "or any two of them,
are authorized and directed to sell to the highest bidder all
or such part of the stock owned by this State in any Rail
Road or Canal Company, and of the debt due to this State
by any Rail Road or Canal Company as can be sold or ex-
changed for not less than an equal amount of the present
public or stock debt of this State, and to convey the interest
so sold to the purchaser or purchasers thereof; and so to pro-
ceed from time to time until all such interest of the State in
every such corporation shall be wholly sold and disposed of;
provided, that the interest of the State in the Washington
Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, be reserved
and exempted from such sale; and after the public debt shall
have been fully paid off, or the sinking fund 'shall be equal
to its liquidation, to create out of said proceeds a permanent
fund for the support of public education; "
The question upon its adoption was decided in the
negative.
Mr. Miller submitted the following amendment to the
amendment:
Strike out the words "also the State's interest in any
banking corporation; "
Decided in the negative.
Mr. Negley submitted the following amendment to the
amendment:
"And provided further, That no corporation shall be per-
mitted either directly or indirectly, to purchase the interest
of the State in any of the public works hereby authorized to
be sold, (so as to control their operations to the detriment
of the public interest; )"
Decided in the negative.
The question recurring upon the adoption of the amend-
ment submitted by Mr. Ridgely,
• Mr. Abbott demanded the yeas and nays.
The demand being sustained,
The yeas and nays were called, and appeared as follows:
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