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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That for the purpose
of enabling said Company to transport the pro-
duce of their mines and manufactories to market,
the said corporation shall be and is hereby invested
with all and singular, the rights, profits, powers,
authorities, immunities and advantages, for the
surveying, locating and constructing, equipping
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and maintaining a railroader railroads, and wharf
or wharves, with the necessary vehicles and appur-
tenances, from their mines or works, to connect at
any convenient point or points with other existing
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Construct
railroad.
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railroads in Allegany County, and with the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal, at Cumberland, which by
the Act, and more particularly the fifteenth sec-
tion thereof, incorporating the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, and its several supplements,
were for the lawful purposes of said Company and
the benefits of its corporators given, granted, au-
thorized and secured to the said Company, and to
the President and Directors thereof respectively,
as fully and perfectly as if the same Act were
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Make connec-
tion.
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herein repeated, and the said corporation shall
transport on its said railroad or roads, which may
be constructed under the provisions of this Act,
and also on any railroad or tram road it may lease
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Shall trans-
port.
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or purchase, as hereinbefore authorized, all per-
sons and property at the same rates of tolls and
prices of transportation as the Cumberland and
Pennsylvania Railroad Company are or shall be by
law allowed to charge and receive, and shall be
entitled to charge for wharfage over any wharf or
wharves, leased, held or built by it, such charges
as it may agree upon with persons using the same.
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Kates of toll.
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the capital stock
of said Company shall be three millions of dollars,
which the President and Directors of said corpora-
tion may increase to five millions of dollars or
diminish to any amount it may deem expedient,
and shall be divided into shares of one hundred
dollars each, and shall be considered as personal
property, and shall be assignable and transferable
in such manner as may be provided by the by-laws
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Capital stock.
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of said corporation, and subscriptions to the said
capital stock shall be made at such places and in
such manner as shall be designated by the said
Alexander Shaw, Alonzo Chamberlin, and Thomas
H. Paul, or a majority of them, upon giving ten
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Subscriptions.
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