762 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 14,

business of the Morning Session, being Senate bills entitled
to a second reading.

The Senate bill entitled an Act to incorporate the Potomac
and Piedmont Coal and Railroad Company, with power and
authority for carrying on the mining of coal, the building of
furnaces, burning of brick, and for the transportion of coal
and other products of its mines and property to market, and
disposing of the same.

Being upon a second reading,

The question recurring upon the following amendment
proposed by the Committee on Corporations:

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Section 7, line 15, insert the words, "who shall be free-
holders."

The amendment was adopted.

Mr. Marbury submitted the following amendment:

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.
To come in as section 8.

And be it enacted, That the property of this Company
shall be subject to taxation as other personal property.

The amendment was adopted", and

The bill, as amended, read a second time.

Mr. Shipley, (the rules being suspended,) submitted the
following order:

Ordered, That Samuel Robinson, au officer of this House,
have leave of absence on account of sickness.

Which was adopted.

Mr. Kilbourn, (the rules being suspended,) submitted the
following order:

Ordered, That the Board of Public Works be requested to
inform this House whether, in their opinion, the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company can legally carry into effect the
resolution of the stockholders of said Company, passed at
their last meeting, providing for funding the overdue and
unpaid coupons on the bonds knowa as preferred bonds and
repair bonds, and how the interest of the State would be af-
fected by carrying the same into effect; and what, if any,
stepg have been taken by. them to protect the interests of the
State in relation thereto.

Which was adopted.