The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-26
The Ruiiroutl Bill.

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the Senate, with the vote and the re-
marks of Capt. BURDETT thereon:
BE it enacted by the Legislature Of West
Virginia.
/. If the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company shall pay into the treas
ury of this State the sum of S2e, $50 O2,
the sum now appearing to be due to this
State from tho said company, upon the
books in the Auditors Office, and $44 90
per mile for every mile of said railroad,
or the railroad known as the North
western Virginia or Parkersburg Branch
Railroad, may be, within thirty-fve
DAYS after the passage of this act, the
same shall be received by this State,
and by the said counties, in full salts
faction and discharge of all State, coun-
ty, township, or other taxes and levies
due by or claimed against the said Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad Company and
the said Northwestern Virginia, or Par
kersburg Branch Railroad Company.
2. If the said Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company shall within thirty
five days after the passage of this act,
file in the Office of the Auditor, the
written consent of said company to pay
inbo the treasury of the State the sum
of thirty thousand dollars per annum
for five years in lieu of all other taxes
and levies, and shall pay the same
OH or before the first day of June in
each year, the same shall be re-
ceived in full satisfaction and discharge
of all State, county, township or other
taxes, and levies which might other
wise be assessed or claimed against the
said company. or against the said
Northwestern Virginia or Parkersburg
Branch Railroad Company, for or dur
ing the said period OF five years, the
one-half of which sum shall be distrib-
uted by the Auditor among the several
counties of the State, in which any
part of said railroad may lie, in proper
tion to the. number of miles of said
railroad lying in each county. But
nothing in this section contained shall
be construed as conceding any thing,
either on the part of the State or the
said company, as to the legal rights of
either, upon the general subject of tax
alton for the future, after the said
period of five years.
3. In case the said Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company shall file the written
consent mentioned in the preceding sec
ton, and shall, ut any time thereafter,
fail to pay the said sum Of thirty thou
sand dollars, as therein provided, 1T
shall be liable to have any of its proper
ty sold by the sheriff or other collecting
officer, to pay the same.
4. Nothing in this act, or the accept
ance of its provisions by the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, shall in
any manner affect the suit now pending
i'm the Circuit Court of Marshall coun-
ty, wherein the said company is plain
tiff, and the Supervisors of said county,
and Jackson Reed, are defendants.
YEAs-Messrs. Burdett, Chapline,
Dolly, Hagar, Raymond, Hoke, Martin,
Slack, Thatcher, Wilson, Wright, Young
and Zinn-13.
NAYs-Messrs. Stevenson, PRESIDENT
Carskadon, Dix, Duval, Farnsworth,
Mahon, O'Brien and Werninger-S.
MIR. Burdett, on casting his vote for
the bill, said that whilst the bill was
not all that he desired, he believed 1T
better both for the State and company,
that the bill pass, as in the absence OF
some such bill the State would be with
out any law by which dollar Of tax
could be collected off the company. BY
this law we provide for taxing the com.
pany (not exempting.) BY it we will
get fixed and nett revenue OF
$50, 900 annually, besides over S2s, 900 on
account of past assessments, and each
county through which the road passes
vii get s44 per mile for SO much OF the
road as lies in such county, and the bill
is limited to five years, and does not in
terfere with existing legal remedies.
Believing the bill will secure greater
benefit to the treasury than law suits
which may be interminable, he should
vote for it.