310 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 9,

the subject of fish, their cultivation, preservation, &c., some
evening that may be convenient to them.

We have named on the part of the House, Messrs. Chap-
man, Merrick and McLane,

By order,

MILTON Y. KIDD,

Chief Clerk.

Which was read, assented to, and sent to the Senate.
The hour having arrived for taking up the order of the day,

The House proceeded to the consideration of the Joint
Resolutions submitted by Mr. Merrick, in reference to the
claim of the State against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company.

The question recurring upon the Joint Resolutions sub-
mitted by Mr. Hoblitzell, as a substitute for the Resolutions
submitted by Mr. Merrick,

Pending the consideration of which,

Mr. Streett submitted the following Joint Resolutions as
an amendment to the Resolutions submitted by Mr. Hoblitzell
and as a substitute therefor.

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
a Committee consisting of four members of the House and
three of the Senate, to be appointed by the Speaker of the
House and the President of the Senate respectively, be and the
same are hereby constituted and appointed a Joint Special
Committee to whom shall be referred all matters of account in
dispute, and all differences between the State of Maryland
and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, relative to the trans-
portation of passengers. Said Committee to have power to
send for persons and papers, and to employ a competent ac-
countant to aid them in their deliberation, and report therein
to this General Assembly for their action, within fifteen days
after the passage of these Resolutions.

And be it further Resolved, That the Attorney General of
the State be, and he is hereby directed, to give in writing, his
opinion upon questions submitted to him by said Committee
relative to the legality of the claim made by the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad against the State.

And be it further Resolved, That upon the failure of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to pay into the Trea-
sury of the State, the amount which the said Committee may
report to be due the State by the said Company, for the space
of twenty days after the adoption of the report of this Com-
mittee by the General Assembly, then, and in that event, it
shall be the duty of the Attorney General, and he is hereby
authorized and directed, to institute forthwith proper legal
proceedings against the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad