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1876.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 651
Also, delivered,
A bill entitled an Act to promote the security of commer-
cial transactions by regulating the issue, negotiability and
transfer of bills of lading, storage receipts and like commer-
cial instruments by defining the rights of the holder thereof,
and by preventing and punishing improper dealings with the
same, or with the goods covered thereby.
Which was read a first time and referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary.
Also, delivered,
A bill entitled an Act for the protection of Deer in Gar-
rett county,
Was read a third time, and referred to a Select Commit-
tee, consisting of Messrs. Browning, Barnard and Atkinson.
Also, delivered,
A bill entitled an Act to incorporate the Tuckahoe Bridge
Company,
Was read a first time and referred to the Committee on
Corporations.
Also, delivered,
A bill entitled an Act to provide for cleaning out the har-
bor and basin and docks of the City of Baltimore, and for
the permanent removal of the cause whereby the waters of
the said harbor and basin have been polluted, and to author-
ize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to issue bonds
to the amount of $1,000,000 to defray expenses of said work.
Was read a first time and referred to the Baltimore city
delegation.
Also, delivered,
A bill entitled an Act to add certain additional Sections to
Article 75 of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Plead-
ings, Practice and Process," sub-title "Process," providing
for service of a writ of summons or of subpoena upon a de-
fendant or defendants, being or residing within the limits of
the State of Maryland in certain cases.
Was read a first time and referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary.
Mr. Gill submitted the following order:
WHEREAS, The information has come to the Committee of
Waya and Means that the Gas Company of Annapolis
charges the State of Maryland the outrageous and enormous
charge of four dollars and twenty-five cents per thousand feet
for gas, when the charge for the same in the City of Baltimore
is three dollars per thousand feet, and in the City of Freder-
ick only two dollars and seventy-five cents.
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