668 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 22,

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE.

Annapolis, March, 22d, 1878.

The following Senate bill having passed both Branches of
the General Assembly, was this day presented to the Governor
for his approval :

AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,

Secretary of the Senate.

No. 155. An Act to adjust and settle finally by an
agreement, all pending controversies between the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Comoany 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 or
its Railroad between Baltimore and Washington, otherwise
than by way of dividends upon its stock in the Washington
Branch Railroad, of said Company.

On motion by Mr. McLane, it was

Ordered, That the Secretary of the Senate be, and he
is hereby, directed to furnish one copy of the map of Pier-
head and Bulkhead Lines of the Harbor of Baltimore to each
member of the Senate, the Secretary of State, Comptroller
of the Treasury, Commissioner of the Land Office, President
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, Clerk of the
Court of Appeals, State Librarian and Insurance Commis-
sioner, and twenty-five copies to be forwarded by Senator
Cooper to the owners of water fronts and harbor masters of
Baltimore City.

On motion by Mr. Bannon, it was

Ordered, That the Chairman of the Committee on Claims
be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Charles E. Maguire,
assistant door-keeper, his per diem from the commencement
of the present session.

On motion by Mr. Gorman,

Leave was granted to the Committee on Corporations to
introduce a bill to be entitled an Act supplementary and