WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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executed by herself in proper form of law, as fully

as if she had attained full age.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1882,

Chapter 223.

AN ACT to authorize the Baltimore and Ohio

Railroad Company, in the construction of its

Philadelphia Branch, to cross other railroads, and

to regulate the mode of crossing the Tide-water

Canal and the Susquehanna River by said Phila-

delphia Branch.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the Baltimore and Ohio

Railroad Company, in the construction of its Phila-

delphia Branch, shall be and is hereby authorized

Authorized to

to cross at, under or above grade any railroad or

cross.

railroads now or hereafter constructed; and if said

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company cannot

agree with the company or companies owning and

operating such railroad or railroads as to the com-

pensation and terms upon which said crossing or

crossings shall be made, then the said Baltimore and

Ohio Railroad Company may condemn the easement

Condemn ease-

of such crossing or crossings in the same mode pre-

ment.

scribed for the condemnation of lands of individuals

by the act incorporating said Baltimore and Ohio

Railroad Company, and the amendments thereof,

and supplements thereto, and under which the lands

of individuals necessary for said Philadelphia Branch.

are to be condemned; provided that if any of said

crossings shall be at grade, then said Baltimore and

Ohio Railroad Company shall at its own expense

erect a proper signal station at such crossings, and

Erect signal

keep a watchman thereat, and the trains of the com-

station.

pany owning or operating the said road so crossed

at grade shall have, precedence over the trains of

the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company run upon

the said Philadelphia branch; and, provided further,