THOMAS SWANK, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

CHAPTER 15.

AN ACT to amend the Charter of the "Cumber-
land and Pennsylvania Railroad Company,"
passed at the January Session eighteen hundred
and forty-nine, Chapter four hundred and sixty-
nine.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That so much and such parts of the
sixteenth Section of the Act of eighteen hundred
and forty-nine, Chapter four hundred and sixty-
nine, entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Cumber-
land and Pennsylvania Railroad Company" as
authorized said Company to charge three cents per
ton per mile toll and three cents per mile freight
for the transportation of coal, be and the same is
hereby repealed. And the said Company are
hereby authorized to charge for the transportation
of Coal from West to East the same rates of toll
and freight per ton per mile as the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad are authorized to charge for the
transportation of coal in like directions, provided

Authorized to
charge roll.

that said charges are uniform and equal to all per-
sons and companies transporting coal over said
Railroad over the same portion thereof, and over a
like distance along said Railroad ; and provided
that no reduction, advance or drawback shall be
made by said Cumberland and Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company partially in favor of or against any
person or company whatsoever transporting coal
over said Railroad ; and provided that if said
Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company
shall at any time transport coal over its Railroad
under any special contract, covenant or agreement,
at less rates of toll and freight or either, than the
rates of toll and freight which it is hereby autho-
rized to charge, the said Cumberland and Penn-
sylvania Railroad Company shall not charge any-
other person or company any higher rates of toll
and freight or either per ton or mile, than it
charges under such special contract, covenant or
agreement, anything in the Act of eighteen hun-
dred and forty-nine, Chapter four hundred and
sixty-nine, or the several supplements thereto to
the contrary notwithstanding.

Proviso,