1874.] OF THE SENATE. 71

On motion by Mr. Stevens,

Leave was granted to the Committee on Finance, to intro-
duce a bill to amend the Act of Assembly of 1872, chapter
196, entitled "An Act to authorize the Comptroller of the
Treasury to adjust and, settle the accounts due by Collectors,
Sheriffs, Clerks, Registers and other receivers of public mon-
eys, in cases where the indebtedness accrued prior to and in-
cluding the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, by re-
pealing Section 1 of said Act, and re-enacting the same with
amendments.

On motion by Mr. Claggett,

Leave was granted to Messrs. Claggett, Phelps and Craw-
ford, to introduce a bill entitled "An Act to repeal Section 2
of chapter 410 of the Acts of Assembly, passed at January
Session, 1872," entitled "An Act to repeal Section 2 of chap-
ter 274, passed January Session, 1870," entitled "An Act to
repeal Section 2 of chapter 31 of the Acts of Assembly of
1865," in relation to the publication of Local Laws, and to
re-enact the same with amendments, and to amend and re-
enact the same.

On motion by Mr. Phelps, it was

Ordered, That the Annapolis and Elk Ridge Rail Road
Company communicate to the Senate—

First—A list of the names of all the stockholders, direc-
tors and officers of the Company, and the salary paid to each
officer.

Second—Copies of the last two annual reports made by the
directors to the stockholders.

Third—The amount an.d denomination of the Company's
bonds and certificates of debt, issued under the Act of 1872,
chapter 425, the amount sold or in any manner disposed of,
to whom, and the rate at which, and the objects and purposes
for which they were so sold or disposed of, specifying sever-
ally how much was expended in repairs, reconstruction, cars,
locomotives and other purposes, necessary to the proper work-
ing of the road.

Fourth—The amount of debts due by the Company, and to
whom, and the objects for which such debts were contracted,
and when they were contracted.

Mr. Blake submitted the following preamble and order :

Whereas, It appears by reference to the Journal of Proceed-
ings of the Senate, at its Session, in eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, page seven hundred, that upon the passage of a