The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-03-30
Maryland Legislature.

would not come from the House of Dele
gates in time to be acted upon before the
close of the session. The Senate refused
to pass the special bill and sent it back to
the Committee ON Finance. A number of
bills were passed, among which were those
to amend the charter of the ,Western Mary
land Railroad Company, appropriating
three thousand dollars to repair the State
House, to amend the Code retaining to
revenue and taxes and to protect the own
ers of land bordering on the Chesapeake
Bay and tributaries. The House of Dele
gates was not in session.
On Monday Senator Dennis submitted
proposition for the settlement of the diff
culties between the State and the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, which was under
stood to be acceptable to the Company
The principal provisions are, first, that the
State release the Company from the pay
ment Of the one-fifth passenger tax that
has accrued since December 10th. 1870, the
day on which the fare from Baltimore to
Washington was reduced to S1.20. The
Company agrees to pay the amount adjudg-
ed to be due to the State by the Superior
Court to January LIST, 1870, and one-fifth
of the receipts from passengers from that
date to January LIST, 1871, and $4,000
annually thereafter, in lieu of all other
axes. 1t is claimed that this is larger
um 1926, 000l than could be realized from
tax on the stock of the Washington
Branch Road at the present rate of levy
nineteen cents on the one hundred dol
Iarsl. After some discussion the PROPOSE
zion was ordered to be placed on the jour
nal. Bills were passed to amend the Code
so as to exempt $50 from attachment for
'lebt. and appropriating So, 600 to furnish
the Governors Mansion. In the House of
Delegates resolutions were passed request
ing the Maryland delegation in Congress
to urge survey for u ship canal between
Synepuxent Bay and the Atlantic Ocean,
and instructing the Governor to issue a
commission to L. S. Senator Dennis. The
House passed the bill to tax the gross
receipts of railways.
In the Senate on Tuesday, bills were
introduced and read the first time to incor-
porate the Baltimore, Hampden and Lake
Roland Railroad Company, and to tax the
sross receipts of railroad companies. The
ill regulating the oyster fisheries was dis
cussed and postponed until Thursday. The
appropriation of $1,000 to the Maryland
Eye and Ear Institute for the years 1871
and 1872 was passed by vote of Is to a..
After some debate on the report of the
Committee on the adjustment of the cases
against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
message to the House was adopted. pro
posing that the subject be again referred to
the committee, with leave to report by bill
or otherwise In the House of Delegates.
petitions against the TRANSFERRED the State S
appropriation from the Elkton and Mas
sey's to the Elkton and Middletown Rail
foI md fhn EnnSn
drew its amendments to the Senate bill
authorizing the transfer. Tho bill! APP
pointing Commissioner of Fisheries was
recommitted to the Committee on the
Chesapeake. Bills were passed to incor-
porate the Baltimore, Hampden and Lake
Roland Railroad; to authorize issue of
licenses to telegraph and express companies
not organized under State law; to provide
for canceling of State stocks and bonds
held to credit of sinking fund and for in
yestment of increase OF said fund. and 10
make further appropriations for the years
1872 and 1878. The Senate bill creating
an Insurance Bureau, with 4 Commissioner
in the Comptroller's Office, was also adopt
ed. The bill providing site in Baltimore
for the State Normal School was taken up
and an amendment passed reducing the
appropriation to $4,000. fhe bill was
then postponed Indefinitely. which at this
stage of the session is almost equivalent to
its defeat. The Senate message concern
ing the railroad cases was concurred in
The education bill was passed to a third
reading, with an amendment that the his
tory of Maryland shall be taught in the
public schools.
There were leaves to introduce bills in
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avenue, from York to Belair avenues, and
to incorporate the Chesapeake Emigration
and Land improvement Company. AT
nntavorable report was adopted on the
House bill for an inspector of guano and
pther fertilizers, but the Senate bill fol
weighing grain was passed-yeas Il, Rays
8. House bill for proceedings to vacate
the charter of the Baltimore and Hartford
Turnpike Company was lost by Il tie vote.
The joint committee on the eases of the
State and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
reported an amendment to their first re-
port, so as to accept $500 from She coru
pany for 1871, instead Of one-fifth of the
passenger receipts on the Washington
Branch, and the amendment having been
agreed TO. the report as amended was
ldopted-yeas 16, nays :. The committee
VI SohicitiiSe hhSt'G ACKNOWLEDGEMENT tilt'
the House recede from It's amendments to
he advance mortgage bill, the bill was
passed rs agreed upon in conference.
In the House the Joint resolutions urg.
ing Congress to accept a proposition from
the international. Steamship Company to
establish an iron shipbui,ding yard was
tmended and adopted. The bill to add
he commissioner of the land office to the
"a, ,,.I y
passed The bill making addit ionai appro
priations for 1862 was amended. All char
table institutions not under State control
were stricken from the list of benelciaries
The bill to inspect flour liz Baltimore was
indefinitely postponed. House bid sras
passed to repeal section 20 Of the act pass
ed this session relating to inspection of to-
bacco. Senate bill was passed authorizing
Calvert county tc subscribe 100000 tc
the Drum Point railroad.
In the Senate on Thursday, the bill ap
propriatinG over a humid ed thousand dol
lars within the next six years to the sup
port of st. Johns College. Annapolis, was
taken up on its second reading AL
amendments III the direction of economy,
by proposing to reduce the amount, were
rejected, and bib sg2s ordered to third
reading with the amendments that Sena-
tors shall control the appointments OF free
scholars. for whose education and mainte,
nance S15,0OO is appropriated, and who
are required to serve two years as teachers
in State schools; and that these scholars
shall giSs bond for the performance OF
this obligation. The House bill appropri
atins $3.50, GOO foY taa eQmpletion of the
Spring Grove Insane .hssyiuin vas passed.
and now only needs the Governors sirna,