1904.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 613

. Also favorably,

House bill, File No. 207, entitled "An Act to incor-
porate the Baltimore Title Company."

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

Also favorably,

House bill, File No. 251, entitled "An Act author-
izing the Bachman Valley Railroad Company to cease
its operations, and to sell and dispose of its property."

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

Mr. Cockey, from Committee on Railroads and
Canals, reported favorably,

Senate bill, File No. 50, entitled "An Act to enlarge
the charter powers of the Western Maryland Railroad
Company; to approve the present location of its railroad
from Big Pool, in Washington county, to its connec-
tion with the system of the West Virginia Central and
Pittsburg Railway Company, near Cumberland; to en-
able it to exercise the powers of condemnation pre-
scribed for railroad companies under the General Laws
of Maryland; to declare and confirm its right to cross
and re-cross with its railroad the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal, the Potomac Valley and Potomac River, and
ratifying the action of the Board of Public Works of
Maryland in approving the plans of said railroad com-
pany for crossing said canal; to expressly authorize it
to condemn certain parcels of land of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company lying on the northern and
southern sides of said canal, together with the ease-
ment of crossing the same with bridges and railroad,
and the easement of the right during construction, to
erect and use temporary platforms, bridges and other
appliances in, upon, or over said canal to provide for
transporting waste material from the north side to the
south side thereof, and to give said railroad company
other powers proper to accomplish said objects and
purposes."

Which was read the second time.
Also favorably,

Senate bill, File No. 40, entitled "An Act to amend