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1568 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Apl. 3,
Mr. Snowden, Chairman on the part of the House of the
Joint Committee appointed under Joint Resolutions adopted
January, 1876, to examine the affairs of the Southern Mary-
land Railroad Company, submitted the following
REPORT.
Your Committee, appointed under the Joint Resolutions of
the Senate and House of Delegates, adopted on the 31st day ,
of January, 1876, has in compliance with such resolutions
examined as fully as possible all the questions concerning
which they were directed to inquire.
They submit a complete report of all the testimony taken
by them in compliance with the terms of said resolutions.
Under the Act of 1868, chap. 454, Sections 2 and 3, the
Treasury officers of this State were obliged, upon the require-
ment of the County Commissioners of St. Mary's, Calvert
and Charles counties, and upon the presentation to the Treas-
urer of the affidavits mentioned in the Act, to subscribe, as
directed by the said Act, and to pay as by said Act, directed
the several sums of money embraced in the appropriation
made for the benefit of internal improvements in said several
counties.
Your Committee finds that the Comptroller and Treasurer
performed their respective duties in relation to works of in-
ternal improvement in Charles county, and that there has
been no complaint whatever made in relation to their per-
formance of said duties in such county.
Your Committee finds that the Comptroller and Treasurer
performed in the same manner their entire duty as to the
Southern Maryland Railroad Company, which was the work
selected by the Commissioners of St. Mary's county, to re-
vive the benefits of the Act to which reference has already
been made.
The only question which remains is to ascertain whether
the Southern Maryland Railroad Company has properly ap-
propriated the money paid to it by the State by subscription
to its stock as provided for in the Act last mentioned.
Upon this point your Committee cannot report fully, be-
oauae the said Company has refused to produce its books for
the inspection of your Committee. It is proper, however, to
say, that although said books were not produced, the President
of the said Company, as will be seen by reference to
his testimony taken by your Committee, while insisting
upon and swearing to the propriety of all the expenditures
made by said Company of the money subscribed by the State
to its stock, has given as his reason for the non-production of
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