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committee appointed under the order marked "A," be also in-
structed to inquire if the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central
Rail Road Company, which is now controlled by the Philadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, have,
in all respects, complied with the terms of their amended
charter, passed March 19th, 1867. Your Committee have
also examined this subject, and the evidence adduced is
herewith presented and marked "D."

It is unnecessary to recapitulate the evidence on this sub-
ject further than to say, that from the construction given to
the aforesaid amendatory Act of the 19th March, 1867, by
the legal counsellors of the said company, its terms have
been complied with.

S. M. Felton, Esq., President of the Philadelphia and
Baltimore Central Railroad Company, stated that it was the
wish of that Company to finish the said road as early as pos-
sible, but that the inability of the said company to raise
sufficient funds to do so, had retarded the work. The esti-
mated cost of this road west of the Susquehanna river is one
and a half million of dollars, and the company have expected
the people on the line of the road, through Harford and Bal-
timore counties, to subscribe to one-third of that amount in
the stock of said road. The company will furnish a million
of dollars in stock now, and if the people through whose ter-
ritory the road passes will furnish the half of that sum, to
wit: five hundred thousand dollars, the road will be prose-
cuted, vigorously, to completion.

To meet this contingency, your committee have prepared
an Act to enable the County Commissioners of Baltimore and
Harford counties, and the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more city, to subscribe to the capital stock or mortgage
bonds of the Philadelphia & Baltimore Central Rail Road
Company.

Going back to the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balti-
more Rail Road Company, we deem it our duty to say that
the provision in the supplementary Act passed by the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, at the January session, 1864,
3d section of chapter 335, which requires the said Company
to attach cars to their trains crossing their Susquehanna
bridge for conveying carriages, wagons, horses, &c., across
said river, at the same rates of toll charged by the Port De-
posit Bridge Company at the time the original charter to
build the said Susquehanna railroad bridge was granted, has
not been complied with. They promise, however, to do so
in the future if the public require it.

Before closing this report, it is due to Isaac Hinkley,
Esq., President of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-