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of the said Company duly called, in a form approved by the
Governor and Attorney General of this State, with the State
of Maryland, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company,

whereby the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
shall bind itself, its successors and assigns, to permit any
Railroad Company, now incorporated, or to be hereafter in-
corporated under the laws of this State, to connect its rail-
road with the railroad or railroads of said Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, at any point, at or near Cumberland,
in this State, and also at any point west of Cumberland, on
the line or lines of said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com-
pany, within this State, the point or points of junction to be
designated by the Railroad Company or Companies desiring
to make such connection, subject, however, to the approval
of the Board of Public Works of the State of Maryland,
in case of any dissent on the part of the said Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company as to the point or points so designa-
ted ; and the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
shall, also, in the contract aforesaid, bind itself, its succes-
sors and assigns, to receive and transport over its main stem,
and the branches thereof, now constructed, or hereafter to be
constructed, and to deliver at the basins of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company, at or near Cumberland, or within
four miles thereof, on the line of the said Baltimore aad Ohio
Railroad, the points of delivery in said basins to be designa-
ted by the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, or by
the shippers, all coal, lumber, pig-iron, ores of all kinds and
stone, intended for shipment on said Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal, or for the use of the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Company, which may be offered to it at any point on its
main stem, or the branches thereof, now constructed, or here-
after to be constructed, in bulk or in loaded cars, as the same
may have been originally offered to said Railroad Company,
on its main stem, or any branch thereof, as aforesaid,
without re-loading or re-shipment, at a uniform rate

of charge of two and one-half cents per ton, of two
thousand pounds per mile, for tolls and transporta-
tion, for all distances under twenty miles, counting west
from the basins of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, at Cum-
berland, Maryland, and at a uniform rate of one and three-
fourth cents per ton, of two thousand pounds per mile for
tolls and transportation for all distances exceeding twenty
miles, and not exceeding twenty-eight miles, counting west
from the said basins at Cumberland, Maryland, and at the
same rate from Piedmont Station, on the said Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, to the said basins at Cumberland, Maryland,

and at a uniform rate of one and one-quarter cents per ton,