1876.] OF THE SENATE 181

On motion by Mr. Gorman,

The vote by which Senate bill entitled an Act to add cer-
tain Sections to Article 81, of the Code of Public General
Laws, title "Revenue and Taxes," providing for the assess-
ment of property heretofore or hereafter omitted to be as-
sessed, and tor the collection of State taxes payable thereon,

Was heretofore ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

Was reconsidered.

When Mr. Gorman submitted the following amendments :
AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

Section 2, (printed bill,) line 15, insert after the word
"paid," the words "to the owner or owners thereof, or to
the person or persons or corporation liable to pay taxes there-
on in such year or years."

Section 2, line 20, after the word "liable," insert the
words "in such year or years."

Section 2, line 22, after the word "unpaid," insert the
words "by him, them or it, in such respective years."

Section 2, line 25, after the word "taxes," insert the words
"from the person or persons or corporations liable for the
payment of the same."

Section 6, line 2, after the word "during," strike out the
word "the," and insert "any year or."

Section 6, line 4, after the word "State," strike out "tax
for the said nine years," and insert "taxes due on said stock
for the year or years."

Which were adopted.

Said bill as amended was then read the second time and
ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, and ordered to
be printed.

Mr. Lloyd from a Select Committee of Investigation, on
the charges preferred against the President and Directors of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, submitted the fol-
lowing

REPORT.

The Committee, which was directed by the order of the
Senate, adopted on January 20th, 1876, to examine fully the
accounts of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, re-
ports to the Senate that, in the prosecution of their inquiry,
they caused a certain Thomas McCardle to appear before
them, that he might testify as to the statements made by
him, or by his authority, in the "Cumberland Times," that
the President and Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company, directly or indirectly, had received a com-
pensation or consideration from the Preferred Bondholders.