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764 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 9,
1871, in the case of the State against that Company, and
also to consider the expediency of releasing the said Com-
pany from the further payment to the State of any portion of
said passenger transportation, and taxing the Company, or
receiving other equivalent in lieu thereof," having carefully
considered the subject referred to them respectfully submit
the following report, as containing the views of the Com-
mittee.
1st. That the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
should pay forthwith into the Treasury of this State the
amount for which judgment has been rendered in the Supe-
rior Court of Baltimore city, in the suit of the State against
the Company, to recover one-fifth of the whole amount received
by said Company for the transportation of passengers between
Baltimore and Washington, on its Washington Branch, with
interest until paid, and costs of suit.
2d. That the Governor, Comptroller and Treasurer, shall
ascertain what sum is due to the State by the said Company
for the State's proportion of the money received for the trans-
portation of the Washington Branch Road from the 1st day
of January, 1870, to the 1st day of January 1871, and that
the Company pay the amount so ascertained, into the State
Treasury on or before the 1st day of July, 1872, with interest,
and that the Company pay to the State, on or before the same
day, the sum of $40,000 in full, for the claim of the State
for its proportion of the passenger transportation received
in the year 1871.
3d. That the Company ought to be released by the State
from the payment of any portion of the future receipts for
passenger transportation on the said Branch Road, and from
all receipts from that source since the 1st day of January,
1872, and ought also to be exempted from taxation on the said
Branch Road, and the Company ought to pay to the State, in
perpetuity, the annual sum of $25,000 in equal semi-annual
payments on the first Wednesday in July and January in
each year; the first of said instalments to be paid on or before
the first Wednesday in July next.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
WILL H TUCK,
JAMES T. EARLE,
BARNES COMPTON,
JOHN LEE CARROLL,
J. M. MILLER,
I On the part of the Senate.
ELIAS GRISWOLD,
B. S. FORD,
GEORGE COLTON,
On the part of the House.
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