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the Board of County School Commissioners whose decision
shall be final."

Which was adopted.

Pending the further consideration of said bill,

Senate bill entitled an Act to adjust and settle finally, by an
agreement, all pending controversies between the Baltimore

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 indebt-
edness of the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to
the said State, and for the establishment by contract of cer-
tain rates of toll and transportation for coal, lumber, pig
iron, ores of all kind and stone transported by the said Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company to the basins of the Chesa-
peake 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 of passengers on
its railroad between Baltimore and Washington, otherwise
than by way of dividends upon its stock in the Washington
Branch Railroad of said Company,

Was read the third time, and passed by yeas and nays, as
follows :

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. Bannon, Lancaster,
Combs, of Allegany, Lee,
Cooper, McLane,
Ford, Miller,
Gorman, Peter,
Hill, Stump,
Humphreys, Welfley,
Joyce, Wilson—16.

NEGATIVE.

Messrs. Dennis, Garey,
Franklin, Steiner,
Freeman, Sulivane—6.
Said bill was then sent to the House of Delegates.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates appeared and deliver-

ed the following message :

BY THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES,

March 18th, 1873.
Gentlemen of the Senate:

We have received your message asking the return of the
House bill entitled an Act granting permission to the Poor
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