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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1872
Volume 190, Page 878   View pdf image (33K)
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878 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 15,
to issue bonds for the payment of the same, and to levy taxes
on the assessable property of the county, to redeem such.
bonds and to pay the interest thereon.
Which was read a first time.
Mr. Goldsborough, Chairman of a Select Committee, re-
ported unfavorably, ,
A bill, relating to the appointment of a weigher of baled
hay, straw and. husks in the City of Baltimore, and prescrib-
ing his duties.
The report was adopted.
Mr. Griswold, (Chairman, on the part of the House,) of
the Joint Select Committee on the claims of the State against
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, submitted the
following
REPORT.
The Joint Committee appointed "to take into considera-
tion the claim of the State against the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, for one-fifth of the passenger transpor-
tation on the Washington Branch Road, with a view to its
adjustment, without further litigation, on the principles an-
nounced by the Court of Appeals, on the 3rd day of May,
1871, in the case of the State against that Company, and.
also to consider the expediency of releasing the said Com-
pany from the further payment to the State of any portion
of said passenger transportation, and taxing the Company,
or receiving other equivalent in lieu thereof," having care-
fully considered, the subjects referred to them, respectfully
submit the following report, as containing the views of the
Committee:
1st. That the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Company
should pay forthwith into the Treasury of this State the
amount for which judgment has been rendered in the Supe-
rior Court of Baltimore City, in the suit of the State against
the Company to recover one-fifth 'of the whole amount re-
ceived by said Company for the transportation of passengers
'between Baltimore and Washington, on its Washington
branch, with interest until paid, and costs of suit.
2nd. That the Governor, Comptroller and, Treasurer,
shall ascertain what sum ia due to the State by the said Com-
pany for the State's proportion of the money received for the
transportation of passengers on the Washington Branch
Road, from the 1st day of January, 1870, to the 1st day of
January 1872, and that the Company pay the amount so
ascertained, in the State Treasury, on or before the 1st day
of July, 18T2, with intercut.

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