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Sale Of The Railroad

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
March
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

On Wednesduy Ihe Bill lor the sale of the Rnilrond was put upon its final passage and and lost yeas 10, nays 7, the Constituiion requiring a two thirds vote to pass au actot'incorporntion. The yeas and nays are as follows: Ykas - Senators Allen, Bush, Ciiipman, Coe, Dentón, Feirton, Green, Kibbee, Ri.x and Smith- 10. Nats - Senators Howell, Littlejohn, Maynard, Robinson, Thurber, Williams and Videto- 7 On Thursilay ihc vote was rcconsidered,. ar;d ihe bill commitlèd to the Committce on Inlerual Improvement. They reported amendmonts wliich were adoptcd, und the bill passed by the folio wing vol e: Yeas - Senators Allen, B'.ish, Chipman, Cöc. Dentón. Fcnton, Green, Hale, Kibbee, Mnynnrd', Robinson, Rix, Smith, Thurber, Williams and Videto - 16. Nats- Senators Howell and Littlcjohn - 2. The Free Press savs:The lïniise will undoobtcdly concur in the imendmonts, and the bill may now be considcred n Inw and the vexed queotion settled. The only amendments we can find'rcported by the Commiitee and adopted, were that the price paid for the transportaron of grain shnll never exceed threefourths the amount now pnid on this road - making the charter repealableattheend of 30, instead of 50 years- and fixing the amoiinl to be paid for tolls at no greater amount than is paid during the months of September and Octobcr, instead of on the Ist day of September a6 in the bil!.