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Quinlan, Goldsborough, Gorsuch,

Renshaw, Brune, Mills,

Jones, of Talbot, Pitts, Turner,

Dennis, of Som't. Harrison, Brown—41.

Long, Thomas,

NEGATIVE.
Messrs.

McIntire, McCoy—2.

Said bill was then sent to the Senate.

On motion, of Mr. Pitts,
The rules were suspended, and

Leave was granted to the Baltimore city delegation to re-
port a bill entitled, an act to amend article 75 of the Code of
Public General Laws relating to pleadings, practice and pro-
cess by adding a section thereto, to authorize the removal of
equity cases in the Superior court of Baltimore city., and in
the Circuit court for Baltimore city, from the one to the other
of those courts.

Mr. Harrison, from a select committee made the following
REPORT:

The select committee to whom was referred the Senate bill
adding, "an additional supplement" to an act entitled, an
act to incorporate the Metropolitan Rail Road Company
beg leave to report: The Metropolitan Railroad Company was
incorporated in 1853, chapter 1% with a capital of 2,000,000
dollars, to construct a railroad from Georgetown in the Dis-
trict of Columbia to Hagerstown in Maryland. It is believed
that, now seven years since its incorporation, the road has been
scarcely more than begun, and that a very small part of the
capital has been paid in.. The gross injustice to the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company, as well as impolicy to the
revenue of the State which will be perpetrated, should this
House confirm the action of the Senate, will be apparent up-
on a consideration of the following statement: The Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company, after an outlay of nearly
28,000,000 dollars, in good faith, under a provision of its
charter that roads leading out of Maryland should not have
a right of connection without its sanction, is now attacked
by a demand for a connection, which will draw from it a
large portion of the trade upon about sixty miles of its main
stem, as well as on its Washington branch. The State of