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nothing herein contained shall apply to any cases
now pending in said courts.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall In force,
take effect from and after its passage.

Approved March 30, 1868.

CHAPTER 337. AN ACT to amend the Charter of the Midlothian Coal and Iron Company.
SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Section (6) six of the Act of (1867) eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, Chapter (262) two hundred and sixty-two, be and the same is hereby repealed, amended and re-enacted as follows, to wit :	Repealed and re-enacted.
Sec. 1. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of enabling the said Company to transport the produce of its mines to market, the said Company, and the President and Directors thereof, shall be, and they are hereby invested with all and singular the rights, powers, privileges, authorities, immu- nities and advantages for purchasing and con- demning a right of way for a Railroad, and to condemn a subterranean passage or tunnel through any lands that it may be necessary to tunnel or make a subterranean passage through in order to get to or have access to their mines and minerals to transport the same to market, and said condem- nation to be made in a similar or like manner as prescribed in Article (26) twenty-six, Sections (74	Right of way.
to 79) seventy-four to seventy-nine, inclusive, of the Code of Public General Laws ; and said Com- pany is invested with power and authority to sur- vey, locate and establish a Railroad and its neces- sary appurtenances, which, by the Act incorporat- ing the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and its several supplements, were for the lawful	Establish railroad.