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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

No. 3.

Joint Resolution directing the special counsel heretofore
employed under Joint Resolution No. 1 of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1906, together with the Attorney
Genera], to collect for the State, by appropriate proceed-
ings, from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,
such taxes on the gross receipts of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company as may be due from said com-
pany to the State, and also requesting said special counsel,
together with the Attorney General, to advise the General
Assembly as to the full extent of the right of the State to
tax the several tunnels and bridges within the State of
Maryland, and the appurtenances thereof, of the several
steam railroad companies operating within the State of
Maryland,

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Honorable William Pinkney Whyte, the Honorable

To recover and
collect taxes
on the gross
receipts.

John Prentiss Poe, the Honorable Isaac Lobe Straus and
the Honorable Thomas G. Hayes, heretofore employed as
special counsel for the State of Maryland, under Joint Reso-
lution No. 1 of the General Assembly of 1906, be and they
are hereby further employed and directed, as special attor-
neys and solicitors for the State, to take all such proceed-
ings as they, together with the Attorney General, may deem
proper, and as soon as may be feasible, to recover and collect
for the State from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
taxes on the gross receipts of the said Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company at a greater rate than has heretofore been
paid by said company, and as such taxes on the gross receipts
of said company may have heretofore accrued, or may here-
after accrue, and be owing to the time of the institution of
proceedings, as aforesaid, or of judgment or decree therein ;
and, further, that the said special counsel and the Honorable
William Shepard Bryan, Jr., the Attorney General, be and
they are hereby requested by the General Assembly to fur-
nish to it, on or before the 19th day of March, 1906, their
joint and several written opinions and recommendations in
reference to the full extent of the right and power of the
State, either under its existing statutes or by any amend-