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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1872
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1872.] OF THE SENATE. 24$
REPORT.
To the Honorable,
The General Assembly of Maryland:
GENTLEMEN :
The undersigned, a minority of the Committee en Finance,
beg leave to submit the following Report upon the bill, enti-
tled an Act to amend the Act of January Session, 1852
chapter 328, entitled "an Act relating to Tolls to be charge!
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, on the Wash-
ington Branch of slid real," by providing that the said Bal-
timore and Ohio Railroad Company shall, upon the compli-
ance of said Company, and other parties in interest, with
certain conditions set forth in this Act, be no longer bound
to account for and pay into the State Treasury the propor-
tion of the passage money received for the transportation of
passengers traveling between Baltimore and Washington,
heretofore claimed by the State, and to re-enact the said Act.
as so amended,
This bill "was submitted to the Committee on Finance, &
the proposition of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,
made with the purpose of bringing about a settlement of the
controversy in which that Company had become involved.
with the Stale.
The provisions of the bill were as follows :
1. That the maximum rate of fire of the Baltimore ami Ohio Railroad Company, fur convening passengers between the
cities of Baltimore and Washington, should be reduced from.
two dollars and fifty cents, to one dollar ami twenty-five
cents, and that the maximum rate for1 way fares should be
reduced from six and a quarter cents per mile, to four cents
per mile.
2. That the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company should
be released from all obligation to) pay into the Treasury of"
the State any portion of the passenger' money received, or to
be received, at any period alter December 10, 1870.
3. That the separate and distinct stock of the Washing-
ton Branch Railroad, other.' than part thereof which. belongs
to the State of Maryland, should he subject to assessment and
taxation in the same manner with other taxable stocks.
4. It was expressly provided that the limitations, conces-
sions and charges, thus stated, should not take effect until
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company should pay into
the Treasury of the State the entire amount, which the Gov-
ernor, Comptroller and Treasurer should ascertain to be the

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