378 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 15,

So the resolutions submitted by Mr. Hammond, as an
amendment to the Reiolutions submitted by Mr. Hoblitzell,
were adopted.

The question then recurring upon the original Resolutions

submitted by Mr. Merrick, as amended, and accepted by him
as amended.

Which read as follows:

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Be it enacted 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 Com-
mittee 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 upon failure of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company to pay into the Treasury
of the State, the amount which 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 Commit-
tee by the General Assembly, then, and in that event, the
Attorney General is hereby directed forthwith to institute
proceedings by writ of scire facias in the name of the State of
Maryland against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,
to ascertain whether the charter and corporate franchises and
privileges of said Company ought not, by reason of misuser
and abuse of its franchises and privileges, be vacated and
annulled.

And be it further resolved, That the Governor is hereby

authorized to employ counsel to aid the Attorney General in
prosecuting the said writ of scire facias,

Said Resolutions were read a second time as amended, and
passed by yeas and nays, as follows :

	AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.	Meekins,	Cooper,
Latrobe, Speaker,	Touchstone,	Morse,
Loker,	Owens,	Blake,
Martin ,	Richards,	Webb,