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said company furnishes the cars and motive power and is subject

to all the expenses of transportation, it shall be authorized to

charge at a rate not exceeding two and a half cents per ton per

mile on all coal and other articles, and two cents per mile for

every passenger that may be transported.

85. Any rail road that may hereafter be constructed or pur-
chased by any corporation formed under this article, shall be so
located or used as to occupy as little space at the passage through
the gap at Wills Mountain near Cumberland, as may be com-

patible with the full and convenient use of said rail road, and in
such manner as to produce as little obstruction as may be to the
location of other rail roads through said gap, by any company
now authorized, or that may hereafter be authorized to construct
the same under the authority of this article.

86. All questions of difference that may arise between any two
companies, or between any company and a citizen in regard to

locating, constructing or working its rail road or rail roads, or

in respect to the charges of transportation thereon, may be sub-
mitted to and decided by the Commissioners of Public Works;
and in case of an equal division in the board of commissioners,
the Treasurer of the State shall decide the same, and the decision
of the said board of commissioners shall be final in all cases
submitted to them.

87. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to
interfere with any lien law in force, or that may hereafter be
enacted.

RELIGIOUS CORPORATIONS.

88. In every Christian church, society or congregation, of

whatever sect, order or denomination now known, or which

shall at any time hereafter be known and acknowledged in this

State, and protected in the free and full exercise of their religion

by the Constitution and laws thereof, there shall be sufficient

power and authority in all the male persons above twenty-one

years of age belonging to any such church, society or congrega-

tion, to elect at their discretion, certain sober and discreet per-

sons, not less than five nor more than thirteen, which persons so

elected, upon being registered as hereinafter directed, shall be

constituted a body politic or corporate to act as trustees in the

name and behalf of the particular church, society or congrega-