822             JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. [Mar. 3,

Mr. Abbott offered the following order;

Ordered, That the President and Directors of the Annapolis
and Elk Ridge Road Company report to this House forthwith,
1st, the gross amount of receipte in each year, from all sources since
the acceptance by the said Company of the act of 1841, chapter
168, up to the 1st March instant, and the disbursements during
the same time; specifying the sources of said receipts and the sev-
eral accounts on which said disbursements were made.

2nd. The amount of net profits annually paid into the State
Treasury, under the said act                           

3rd. What amount of, bonds of the Company was issued under
said act and the amount of principal now due on the same;

Which was adopted.                      

Mr. Kennedy, chairman of the select committee to whom was re-
ferred so much of the Governor's message as relates to secret so-
cieties, presented the majority report.                           

[See Appendix to Journal.]           

Mr. Merrick, from the same committee, presented the minority

report.

[See Appendix to Journal.]

On motion of Mr. Kennedy,               

The reading of each report was dispensed with.

Mr. Hall moved that one thousand copies of each report be
printed,

Which was adopted.
On motion of Mr. Hall,

The said reports were made the order for next Saturday even-
ing.                                                                           

Mr. Hall offered the following report:                       

The report of the undersigned, being four members of the Joint
Committee heretofore appointed to examine into the Lottery Con-
tract, &c.
The undersigned beg leave to                             

REPORT:

That they have carefully examined the subject confided to them,
and that the Committee, as a whole, were unable to come to any
united determination. They feel bound to make this statement,
because it appears that an error has been committed in a report
made to the Senate, by representing the report there made as the
report of the Committee. The report made to the Senate was a