484            JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS.           [Mar. 8,

Mr. Kennedy offered the following amendment:

"Provided that the Columbia and Port Deposit Rail Road Com-
pany, and the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail Road
Company shall not either separately or jointly arrange the rates
of charges either for passengers or tonnage passing to or from
the line of the Columbia and Port Deposit Rail Road, so that
passengers or tonnage may be transported from or to any point
on the line of said road, to or from the city of Wilmington or
Philadelphia, or any point on the Delaware bay or river, at a less
rate per passenger or per ton per mile than the rates charged to
or from the city of Baltimore, or any point on the Chesapeake
from or to any point on the line of the said road."

Amendment assented to.                                               

Mr. Silver offered the following amendment:

"Provided that said Company shall pay into the Treasury of
Maryland a tax of 5 mills per ton per mile, on all tonnage passing
over the line of said Rail Road, from the receipts on tonnage
during such time the State of Maryland and the city of Balti-
more may hold an interest either as stockholder or mortgagee in
the Tide Water and Susquehanna Canal Company; and it is fur-
ther provided that the Treasurer of Maryland shall have power
to appoint an agent or agents to collect the tonnage tax as afore-
said, in such manner and at such times as he may determine, and
the proceeds of said tax shall be appropriated first to pay any de-
ficiency on the part of said Canal Companies, in the payment of
the current interest due the State of Maryland, and any balance
thereafter shall be applied to the declaration of a dividend on the
stock of said Company, including that held by the city of Balti-
more, in accordance with the charters of said Companies."

Amendment rejected.                                                  

On motion of Mr. Partridge,

The rules were suspended to allow him to report favorably on
a Senate bill from the select committee, entitled,

An act amendatory of an act entitled, an act to authorise the
Baltimore United Fire Department, incorporated by an act of the
General Assembly of Maryland, passed at December session,
1833, chapter 187, to regulate the admission of new members
into one department.                                                     

Also, on the Senate bill entitled, an act to provide a summary
mode of recovering the possessions of lands and tenements held
by tenants for one year, for a term of years, from year to year,
for a less period or at will, after the expiration of their tenancy.

Also, on the bill entitled, an act supplementary to the act in-
corporating the Northern Central Railway Company, and to en-