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The committee examined and burned seventy certificates of
Funded debt of the State issued for arrears of interest then drier,
under the act of December Session, Eighteen Hundred and forty
six, chapter Two Hundred and Thirty Eight, amounting to fifty-
seven thousand, five hundred and sixty five Dollars, and eighty
four cents, as per statement E.               Also one Certificate for

arrearage of unfunded interest due prior to the first day of October
eighteen hundred and forty seven, for Ninety-three Dollars and
seventy nine cents.

The labor of the committee has been greatly enhanced and their
session prolonged, from the fact that no Coupons of the Sterling
Bonds issued for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company had
heretofore been returned to the Treasurer, and upon examination
and registering of which, the committee find that there are some
due as far back as 1842, which do not appear on the Register of
those Bonds, as having been* funded, or returned as paid.

If the agent for paying the interest in London, on the Sterling
Bonds, would return the Coupons semi-annually, or even annually
it would save future committees of the Legislature much labor,
and materially curtail the duration of their Sessions.

In closing their report, the Committee have great pleasure in
acknowledging the facilities and courtesy extended, to them by
the Treasurer and his Clerk, during their long and laborious ses-
sion.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

Benj. G. Keene,
                               on the part of the Senate.

Thomas Franklin,
               Wm. J. Leonard,

On the part of the House of Delegate.
Treasury Office,
Annapolis, June 16th 1853.

On motion of Mr. Wicks,

The rules were suspended, three-fourths of the Members con-
tuning, in order to give a third reading to a bill entitled an Act
for the relief of James Owens, of Allegany county.                 

The bill was then read a third time, and passed by yeas and

nays, as follows :

		Affirmative.
	Messrs. Speaker, Plowden, Griffith, Sudler, Neff,	Dail, Thomas, Scott, Miller, Brooke,	Kennedy. Partridge, Abbott, Valiant, Lester.