1876.] OF THE SENATE. 433

If this were taxable—State tas at 19 cts. per

100, present rate, would be.......................$ 24,838 61

The Company also respectfully submits, sis a bases of ad-
justment, the Report of the Joint Select Committee appointed
by the House of Delegates, and the Senate to take into conside-
ration the claim of the State against the Baltimore and Ohio
Railr ad Company, for one-fifth of the passenger transporta-
tion on the Washington Branch Road, with a view to its ad-
justment, without further litigation, as follows:

Extract from paaes 1185 and 1186, Journal of the Itouse
of Delegates for 1872.

Mr. Griswold, Chairman on the part of the House, of the
Joint Select Committee appointed to consider and report
upon the subject, as named therein, submitted the fol-
lowing

REPORT:

The Joint Committee appointed "to take into considera-
tion the claim of the State against the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, lor one-fifth of the passenger transporta-
tion on the Washington Branch Road, with a view to its ad-
justment, without further litigation on the principles an-
nounced by the Court of Appeals, on the 3rd day of May.
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 sumd of $40,000 in full, for the claim of the State