Leave was granted to the Committee on Corporations to
introduce a bill to enable the Powhatan Steamboat Company

to issue its bonds to the amount of three hundred thousand
dollars.

On motion by Mr. Wilson,

Leave was granted to the Committee on Finance to report

a bill pay the accounts of C. G. Magruder, Jr., Henry
Brooke and P. G. Grimes for costs in sundry State cases in
Prince George's county ; and the accounts of J. N. W. Wil-
son and Isaac Scaggs for taxes erroneously paid into the State
Treasury.

On motion by Mr. Henkle,

Leave was granted to the Committee on Finance to report

a bill to grant B. Duncan Smith, a Tax Collector for Anne
Arundel county, further time to complete his collections.

The President laid. before the Senate the following com-
munication from the Comptroller in response to an order of
the Senate.
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,

Annapolis, March 23,1870.
Hon. Barnes Compton,
President of the Senate:

DEAR SIR :—In compliance with the following order passed
the Senate on the 21st instant, to wit :

"Ordered, That the Comptroller report to the Senate at an
early day as possible the amount of money appropriated for
the use and benefit of the Maryland Agricultural College;
also the cause of the retention by the Comptroller of 10 per

cent. out of the fund arising from the sale of the Public
Lands donated to the States by the United States, for educa-
tional purpose."—1 beg leave to report that the Legislature
appropriates annually to the Agricultural College, six thou-

sand (6,000) dollars in addition to five thousand nine hun-

dred and eighty five (5,985) dollars, and sixteen (16) cents,
received by said College for the interest on the proceeds of
the sale of Agricultural College scrip invested in bonds of
the State of Maryland and Brookville Academy. The .10
per cent. of the sales of the College scrip was retained by the
Comptroller under the provisions of section 7, chapter 53,
of 1866.

Respectfully submitted,
LEVIN WOOLFORD.,
Comptroller.

Which was read and referred to the Committee on Fi-
nance.

Mr. Snyder presented the petition of Albert Sigmund, of
Baltimore city, praying to be refunded money paid into the