PETITION.

To the Speaker and Members of the General Assembly of
Maryland:

GENTLEMEN :

WHEREAS, the Chestnut Ridge Iron Oar Mining Company
of Pennsylvania, have petitioned to your honored intelligence,
to grant them a charter to build a railroad from some point in
Pennsylvania, to extend into the State of Maryland as far as
their Iron Oar Mines, and perhaps as far as the city of West-
minister in said State, and thus run parallel with the line of
railroad, in the same valley of land, for a distance of eight or
ten miles, that the Parkton and Manchester R. R. Co. is now
building, and for which said. Company has obtained the
chartered right to construct from the present General Assem-
bly of Maryland; and

WHEREAS, the completion of the said Iron Oar Mining
Railroad would produce a serious injury in the way of trade to
the Parkton and Manchester Railroad enterprise, as well as a
detriment to the citizens of that portion of Maryland, and the
city of Baltimore, by inducting a heavy trade of iron oar, and
other articles into Pennsylvania that would otherwise be car-
ried to Baltimore and other portions of the Eastern part of
Western Maryland.

We, the undersigned, stockholders of the Parkton and Man-
chester Railroad enterprise, and others from Baltimore and
Carroll, counties, do pray that the General Assembly of Mary-
land, will refrain from granting a legal and chartered right to
any company from Pennsylvania or any other sister State, to
consummate an enterprise that will deteriorate the interest of so
large a portion of the citizens of the Commonwealth of Mary-
land.
NAMES.

Jacob Shamberger, Daniel Beckley, George Everheart, .Jacob
Hoshall, Christian Roger, Jr., Henry F. Miller, Geo. H. Hart, Lewis
C. Myerly. Thomas E. Enser, John Carrill, George Bull. William
Freeland, Nathen Ensor, James A. Brown, Win. Kidd, J. B. Kidd,
James McGeckin, Jr., James McGupin, Sr , Geo. T. Shower, Jr.,
Charles Kidd, James Quinn, Edward Kelley, Jr., Edward Kelley, Sr.,
Wm. Devlin, Loveless Martin, James Bell, James P. Fugait, J. B.
Heaton, Win. Diffendal, Martin Grady, Thos. Sore, Cornelius Burns,
Singleton Wilson, D. McLachlan, James Linch, Thomas Wien, James
Jones, William Inon, E. C. Kidd, F. P. Flym, A. B. Boyle, W. B.
Dixon, John Krantz, Danl. Breen, William Duff, John Mallon; Wil-
liam Wood, John Riordan John Newbern Jas. Brooks, Michael
Keough, Patrick Higgings, Henry Devlin, Patrick Hassan, Alexander
Campbell, John Dugan, James Rompley, B.. B. Kirkwood, Stephen
Freeland, Elias Nelson, Jno. C. Little, Daniel K. Leitner, Thos.
Hacketts Frank Murphy, Tarry Raferty, Edward McCeary, Michal

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