But, in making the appropriation, the Board calculated
that a considerable portion of the coupons intended to be
paid were lost, and that others holding them would probably
not present them until after the spring trade opened, and
furnished sufficient funds to meet them.

And besides, the amount of money required for repairs
proved to be a good deal larger than we expected it would
have been when the appropriation was made, This was
owing to a break in the bank of the Canal, and the bad con-
dition of some of the masonry, and the necessity of drawing
out the channel of the Canal at many places along the line.

Very truly yours, &c.,

J. H. GORDON,
President Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.

Which was read and referred to the Committee on Cor-
porations.

On motion by Mr. Malone, it was

Ordered, That the President of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company be requested to inform the Senate whether
the guarantee of 195,000 tons of tonnage per year, on an
average of years for five years, dating from the end of six
months after the completion of the Canal to Cumberland,
and the opening of navigation to that point in 1851, as pro-
vided by section 3, of the Act of 1844, chapter 281, was ever
given, and if given as required by said section, whether the
same was ever enforced, or attempted to be enforced, and
what loss of revenue was sustained by said Company in con-
sequence of the non-enforcement of such guarantee.

The President laid before the Senate the following com-
munication from the President of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company:

To the Honorable the Senate of Maryland :

GENTLEMEN—I beg leave respectfully to state that a large
number of original papers belonging to the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company have been filed with your Special Com-
mittee in the case of Alfred Spates, and knowing the pressing
nature of your Committees and others connected with your
body about the close of your session, I beg leave to request
that an order may be passed directing that those papers may
be returned to the Canal Company as soon as they can be
dispensed with.

I also beg leave respectfully to request that a copy of the
report of said Committee, and also a copy of all the testimony
taken, and other proceedings had by them, should be fur-