clear space clear space clear space white space
A
 r c h i v e s   o f   M a r y l a n d   O n l i n e

PLEASE NOTE: The searchable text below was computer generated and may contain typographical errors. Numerical typos are particularly troubling. Click “View pdf” to see the original document.

  Maryland State Archives | Index | Help | Search		 search for:
clear space
white space
Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1872
Volume 190, Page 1853   View pdf image (33K)
 Jump to  
   << PREVIOUS  NEXT >>
clear space clear space clear space white space

1872. OF THE SENATE. 247
more and Potomac Railroad has completed that part of its
line which extends from Baltimore to Washington.
If this be the real judgment of the Senate, the undersigned
is of opinion that the case now depending between the State
and the Baltimore and. Ohio Railroad. Company is capable of
easy solution.
If the State ought, upon principles of even-handed justice,
to provide for the remission of the burden now imposed upon
the Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, upon the completion of the road now being built
between Baltimore and Washington by the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad Company, that obligation is in no wise
lessened or impaired by the failure of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company to comply with the terms of a con-
tract, which the Court of Appeals has decided to be valid.
The State is incapable of temper, vengeance or partiality.
Its legislation ought to) be based upon correct principles, and
ought not to be swayed by such feelings as litigation some-
times inspires between private disputants.
The State ought to do whatever is right, without regard
to the conduct of its citizens, because when its own duty is
done it has ample means of enforcing the performance by
others of their obligations to itself.
In the particular case-, however, no claim has been made
upon the magnanimity of the Legislature. It has not been
asked to release, without condition, the charge now imposed
upon the Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, even if that charge be unjust. On the
contrary, that Company, yielding for the present all consid-
eration of its claim against the State, has offered to pay into
the Treasury of the State not only the sum of money in-
volved in the case reversed by the Court of Appeals, but also
all subsequent sums claimed under the same contract to the
date of December 10, 1870—a date which the Legislature
may, of course, alter, it it has any good reason so to do, if
the arrangement proposed could be made acceptable to its
judgment with such modification.
The Company has offered to reduce its chartered rate of
fare below that accorded to the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company.
It has offered to subject the capital stock of the Washing-
ton Branch! Road to taxation in as large a manner as the
stock of any railroad company in the State is subject to tax-
ation.
The Company has not asked to be relieved from the claim
of the State that the dividend payable to the State, under


  		clear space
clear space
white space

Please view image to verify text. To report an error, please contact us.
Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1872
Volume 190, Page 1853   View pdf image (33K)
 Jump to  
   << PREVIOUS  NEXT >>


This web site is presented for reference purposes under the doctrine of fair use. When this material is used, in whole or in part, proper citation and credit must be attributed to the Maryland State Archives. PLEASE NOTE: The site may contain material from other sources which may be under copyright. Rights assessment, and full originating source citation, is the responsibility of the user.

Tell Us What You Think About the Maryland State Archives Website!

An Archives of Maryland electronic publication.
For information contact mdlegal@mdarchives.state.md.us.

©Copyright  October 06, 2023
Maryland State Archives