530 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 15,

Also, favorably,

House bill entitled an Act to repeal Section 199, of Article
1, of the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "Allegany
County," sub-title "Birds," as enacted by the Act of 1874,
Chapter 23, and enact other sections in lieu thereof, to be
known as Sections 199, 199 A, 199 B, 199 C and 199 D.

With the following amendments :

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.
In Section 199, strike out the words "mink and skunk."

In the 6th line, strike out the word "fifty" and insert in
lieu thereof the word "thirty ;" and strike out all of the sec-
tion after the word "cents," in the 6th line, and strike out
the words "mink and skunk" wherever they may afterwards
occur in the bill.

Which were adopted.

Said bill, as amended, was then read the second time.

The President announced the order of the day to be

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 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 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.

Pending the consideration of the amendment submitted by
the Committee on Finance, on the 14th instant,

Mr. McLane submitted the following amendment to the
amendment:

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Insert after the word "stone," in line 51, Section 5, ''but
the shippers of such articles shall cause the same to be load-
ed on the cars at their own expense."

Which was adopted.