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cessors and assigns for the transportation of children
and to regulate the giving of transfers thereto."

Which was read the second time and ordered to be
engrossed for a third reading.

Also favorablv, with amendments.

House bill, File No. 506, entitled "An Act to amend
the charter of the Hagerstown Railway Company of
Washington county, Maryland, a corporation duly in-
corporated under the provisions of Article 23, of the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, to auth-
orize it to buy, sell or lease or consolidate with the
Hagerstown and Myersville Railway Company, the
. Hagerstown West End Railway Company, or any other
railroader railway, and to connect or enter into a traffic
agreement with the said railway companies, or any
other railroad or railway company, and also to auth-
orize and empower the said Hagerstown and Myers-
ville Railway Company and the Hagerstown West End
Railway Company, or either of them, to sell, lease or
consolidate with or enter into traffic agreement with
the said Hagerstown Railway Company of Washington
county, Maryland, or any other railroad or railway
company, and to make the charter of the Hagerstown
Railway Company of Washington county perpetual."

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

1. Strike out the last clause in title as follows:
"And to make the charter of the Hagerstown Railway
Company of Washington county Maryland, per-
petual."

Which was adopted.

2. Strike out all of section 6.
Which was adopted.

Which was read the second time and ordered to be
engrossed for a third reading.

REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTEES.

Mr. Fuss, from Select Committee, reported favor-
ably,

House bill, File No. 708, entitled "An Act to repeal
sections 216, 226, 227 and 232 of Article 7 of the Code