158 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 3,

Wherefore your memorialists pray that an Act may be
passed, allowing them to make the same charge for the trans-
portation of passengers as other roads in the city of Balti-
more, or for such modification of the twenty per cent, tax on
the gross receipts of the Company as may seem just and prop-
er to your memorialists, and likewise to the corporation of
Baltimore, in view of all the facts and circumstances sur-
rounding the case.

ODEN BOWIE,

President Baltimore City

Passenger Railway Company.

Which was read and referred to Messrs. Blake, Lloyd,
Walsh, Sterner and Aydelotte.

Mr. Lloyd presented the memorial of John Miller and
others, of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, calling the atten-
tion of the General Assembly to the water course known as
"Kent Island Narrows."

On motion by Mr. Stevens,

Leave was granted to the Committee on Finance, to report
a bill to appropriate a sum of money to the Maryland Insti-
tution, for the instruction of the blind; to establish an Indus-
trial Department for the adult blind of the city and State.

Also,

To the Committee on Corporations to report a bill entitled
"An Act to amend the sixth section of the Act of eighteen
hundred and fifty-eight, chapter four hundred and ten, enti-
tled''An Act to incorporate the Mineral Hill Mining Com-
pany of Maryland," &c.

On motion by Mr. Suit,

Leave was granted to Messrs. Suit, Steiner and Brattan, to
report a bill to amend the charter of the Washington City
and Point Lookout Rail Road.

On motion by Mr. McCulloh,

Leave was granted to the Committee on Corporations, to
introduce a bill entitled "An Act to extend an Act, entitled
an Act to incorporate the New York Mining Company, passed
at December Session, eighteen hundred and forty-four, chap-
ter two hundred and twenty, and the supplement thereto,
passed at December Session, eighteen hundred and forty-six,
chapter one hundred and twenty-three, and the Act to alter
and amend the said original Act of incorporation, and sup-
plement thereto, passed at January Session, eighteen hundred