Company hereby incorporated , and theaforesaid corporation,
or a majority of them, may cause books to be opened at such
times and places as they may direct, for the purpose of re-
ceiving subscriptions to the said capital stock of said Com-
pany, after having given thirty days' notice in two daily
newspapers of Baltimore city.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That if this railroad shall not
be commenced in ten years, and shall, not be finished in
eight years from the time of its commencement, then this
Act shall be null and void.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect,
and be in full force from the date of its passage.

Which was adopted.

Said bill was then read the second time anil ordered to be
engrossed for a third reading.

Mr. Earle, from the Committee on Finance, to whom the
leave was granted, reported a bill entitled an Act to pay
George Colton & Son, the sum of $2,495.47.

Which was read the first time.

Also, from the same Committee, to whom the leave had
been granted, reported

A bill entitled an Act supplementary to an Act entitled an
Act to make certain improvements in the vicinity of the Live
Stock Scales, passed at the January session, 1864, chapter
23, and to an Act amendatory thereof, passed 1866, chapter
120, by appropriating a sum of money to enable the Commis-
sioners therein named to discharge the liabilities incurred
thereunder.

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Earle, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was
referred the Joint Resolutions in reference to the claim of the
State vs. the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.

Reported them unfavorably.
On motion by Mr. Earle,

The further consideration of said report was ordered to be
postponed until Tuesday, March 1st.

Mr. Henkle, from the Select Committee, to whom the leave
was granted, reported a bill entitled an Anatomy Act.

Which was read the first time.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates delivered the Joint
Besolutions requiring and directing the Treasurer, under the
direction of the Governor, to sell the remaining bonds of the
Defence Loan, the proceeds to be applied to the current wants
of the Treasury.