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Mr. Smith offered the following :

Ordered, That a committee of three be appointed to wait
upon the visiting Baltimore committee, and invite them to
the floor of the House at half past one o'clock to-day.

Which was adopted.
On motion of Mr. Boswell,

The vote by which, the order was first adopted,

Was reconsidered.

Mr. Boswell proposed the following:

"Strike out one and a half" and insert "twelve and a half
o'clock;

Which was adopted.
The order as amended,
Was then adopted.

Mr. Carmichael, Chairman of the Committee on the Judi-
ciary, reported the following

JOINT RESOLUTIONS:

Whereas, It is represented to this General Assembly that
the President and Managers of the Baltimore and Frederick-
town Turnpike Company are charging a higher rate of tolls
on their road than by law they are authorized to do, and that
they are charging and collecting toll for travel upon what
was formerly a part of their road, but is now one of the pub-
lic streets of the city of Baltimore by a conveyance of the
same made by said Company, and have also for a long time
neglected to repair the Pratt street road as required by their
charter; and, whereas, it is proper that the General Assem-
bly should protect the public against the impositions under
color of law by corporations of its creation; therefore,

Resolved, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Attorney General be and he is hereby directed to inquire
whether the rates of toll charged by the said President and
Managers of the Fredericktown Turnpike Road Company are
higher than is warranted by law; whether they are charging
for passing over any road or way not now by law belonging
to them, and whether the said Pratt street road has been or
is now in a condition such as their charter requires; and if
he shall be of opinion that the charter of said Company in any
or all of these particulars is violated he shall publish his
written opinion to that effect in two of the newspapers of the
city of Baltimore, and shall give notice to said Company of
his said opinion, and if the said Company shall not within
a reasonable time after said notice to it, correct the wrong
which it shall authorize or permit, then said Attorney General

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