533 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 15,
Combs, of Allegany, Lee,
Combs, of St. Mary's, McLane,
Cooper, Miller,
Ford, Peter,
Gorman, Stump,
Hepbron, Welfley—17.
Humphreys,
NEGATIVE
Messrs. Dennis, Newcomer,
Franklin, Steiner,
Freeman, Sulivane,
Garey, Wilson—8.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
FRIDAY, March 15th, 1878..
Senate met at 5 P. M.
Present at roll call the following Senators :
Messrs. President, Bannon, Combs, of Allegany, Combs,
of St. Mary's, Cooper, Dennis, Ford, Franklin, Freeman,
Garey. Gorman, Hepbron, Hill, Joyce, Lancaster, Lee, Mc-
Lane, Miller, Peter, Steiner, Stump, Sulivane, Welfley, Wil-
son— 24.
The President announced as the unfinished business,
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 Mary-
land, by subjecting the franchises and property of said Com-
pany, within this State, to taxation for State purposes to-
a certain extent, and by providing for the payment of a cer-
tain 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 kind, and stone transported by
the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to the ba-
sins of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 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
moneys received by the said Company for the transportation
ef passengers on its railroad between Baltimore and Wash-
ington, otherwise than by way of dividends upon its stock in
the Washington Branch Railroad of said Company,
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