The following communication from the Attorney General,
in response to an order of the Senate :

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Baltimore, February 8,1870.
To the Hon. Barnes Compton,
President of the Senate:

DEAR SIR:—I have the honor to request that you will lay
before the Senate, the accompanying opinion, in response to
the request in the order of the Senate of the 12th ultimo.

Very respectfully,
ISAAC D. JONES,
Atty. Genl. of Md.

[See Document J.]

Which was read.
On motion by Mr. Spates,
The opinion was ordered to be printed.

Also the following communication from George H. Wil-
liams, Secretary of the Baltimore and Harford Turnpike
Company.

To the Hon. the President of the
Senate of the State of Maryland:

SIR. :—In pursuance of the Act incorporating the Balti-
more and Harford Turnpike Company, I have the honor
herewith to transmit the abstract of the accounts of said
Company:

Abstract of amounts of the Baltimore and Harford Turnpike
Company, ending December ,1869.

DR.

To Road cost.............................................. $100,000 00
" Cash in hand....................................... 2,530 75
" Expense account................................... 21,013 32

$123,544 07

Tolls received in 1868............... ..................$11,057 03
1869.................................... 13,927 79

CR.

By Capital............................................... .$100,000 00
" Dividend account................................... 307 00
" Profit and loss..................................... 2,251 25
" Toll account........................................... 20,985 82
$123,544 07