1878.] OF THE SENATE. 833

No. 155. An Act to adjust and settle finally, by an agree-
ment, all pending controversies between the Baltimore and

Ohio Railroad Company and the State of Maryland, by sub-
jecting 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 Railroad Company, to the basins of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company, at or near Cumberland, and by pro-
viding, 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.

No. 160. An Act to repeal Sections eighty-seven and ninety,
of Article 10, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Dor-
chester County," sub-title "County Commissioners," enacted

by the Act passed at January Session, 1870, Chapter four
hundred and forty-nine, and all other sections, or parts of
sections, of the Code of Public General Laws and Public
Local Laws, and all other Acts and sections, or parts of Acts
or sections, of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, and to
epact the following in lieu thereof.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates appeared and de-
livered the follewing bills :

Senate bill entitled an Act for the prevention of cruelty to
animals.

Endorsed: "Passed by yeas and nays."

Senate bill entitled an Act to refund to John S. Walters,

of Caroline County, a sum of money.

Endorsed: "Passed by yeas and nays."

Senate bill entitled an Act to authorize the Board of Man-
agers of the Maryland House of Correction to hire convict
labor to the Maryland Canal Company, and prescribe the
manner of payment for the same by said Canal Company.

Endorsed: "Passed by yeas and nays."

Senate bill entitled an Act to repeal Section 151, of Article

4, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Baltimore City, relat-

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