434 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS: [Feb. 23,

commissioners: of Baltimore county to issue the bonds of said
county tor the purpose of redeeming the stock of Baltimore city,
held by them for the use of said county, and by said county com-
missioners pledged in pursuance of the act of 1854, chapter 144;

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Stone from a select committee; reported a bill entitled, an
act authorizing the county commissioners of Charles county to
alter the lines dividing election districts in said county, and form
another election district;                                 

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Smith, of Baltimore city, reported a bill entitled, a sup-
plement to an act relating to the payment of the criers and ba-
liffs of Baltimore city court, passed December session 1834, chap-
ter 272;

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Waters reported a bill entitled, an act for the benefit of

the academies and schools of Anne Arundel county;

Which was read the first time.                                       

Mr. Rankin, from a select committee, reported a bill entitled,
an act relating to the tolls and charges of the Northern Central
Rail Road Company; with the following,

REPORT.

The committee to whom was referred the memorials relative to
the tolls and charges of the Northern Central Rail Road Company,
beg leave to submit the following report.

The main question involved in this investigation is as to how
far the act of consolidation superseded the requirements of the act
of incorporation of the Baltimore and Susquehanna Rail Road
Company and the several supplements thereto.

This being a very nice and purely legal question your com-
mittee have had some considerable difficulty in coming to a defi-
nite conclusion upon the subject.

Still from all the examination they have been able to make into
the several acts of Maryland and Pennsylvania consolidating this
company as well as the previous acts of incorporation of the sev-
eral companies, they are led to believe that the consolidated
company is restrained in its charges for tolls, charges and trans-
portation upon that part lying within the State of Maryland, in
what was formerly called the Baltimore and Susquehanna Rail
Road by the provisions of the original act constituting said Balti-