1878.] OF THE SENATE. 483

Mr. McLane, from the Committee on Finance, reported,
favorably,

Senate bill entitled an Act to adjust and settle finally, by-
an agreement, all pending controversies between the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company and the State of Maryland,
by subjecting the franchises and property of said company
within this State to taxation, for State purposes, to a certain
extent, and by providing for the payment of a certain in-
debtedness of the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com-
pany to the said State, and for the establishment, by contract,
of certain rates of toll and transportation for coal, lumber,
pig-iron, ores of all kinds, and stone, transported by the said
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, to the basins of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, at or near Cumber-
land, and by providing on certain conditions for the release
of the right of the State to any proportion of the monies re-
ceived by the said company, for the transportation of passen-
gers on its railroad between Baltimore and Washington
otherwise than by way of dividends upon its stock, in the
Washington Branch Railroad of said Company,

With the following amendment:

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Strike out all after the words "a bill entitled," and insert
in lieu thereof the following :

"An Act to adjust and settle finally, by an agreement, all.
pending controversies between the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company and the State of Maryland, by subjecting the
franchises and property of said company within this State,
to taxation for State purposes, to a certain extent, and by
providing for the payment of certain indebtedness of the said
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to the said State, and
for the establishment, by contract, of certain rates of toll and
transportation for coal, lumber, pig-iron, ores of all kinds,
and stone, transported by the said Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company, to the basins of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad Company, at or near Cumberland, and by providing
on certain conditions for the release of the right of the State
to any proportion of the monies received by the said com-
pany, for the transportation of passengers on its railroad,
between Baltimore and Washington, otherwise than by way
of dividends upon its stock, in the Washington Branch Rail-
road of said Company.

Whereas, The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has
made application to this General Assembly to be released
from its contract for payment to the State of one-fifth of its