660
May acquire
lands, &c.
Crossing or
intersecting
established
roads.
Not impede
the passage.
To purchase
stock.
To charge for
transportat'n
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
turnouts and branches, or any part thereof, including
building of bridges, necessary warehouses, depots
and stations, and fixing scales and weights, and all
works whatsoever which may be necessary to the
proper completion and working of said road and
branches, and may acquire any land, earth, stone,
gravel or other material required for any of the pur-
poses aforesaid, by agreement with the owners
thereof, or by condemnation, as provided in sections
one hundred and seventy, one hundred and seventy-
one, one hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and
seventy-three, one hundred and seventy-four, and
one hundred and seventy-five, of article twenty-six,
of the Code, entitled corporations; and all said sec-
tions shall apply to tins railroad company.
SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That whenever in the
construction of the said road or roads, or branches,
it shall be necessary to crops or intersect any estab-
lished road or way, it shall be the duty of the Presi-
dent and Directors of said company, so to construct
the said road or roads, or branches, across the estab-
lished road or way, as not to impede the passage or
transportation of persons or property along the same;
or where it shall be necessary to pass through the
land of any individual, it shall also be their duty to
provide for each individual proper wagon ways
across said road or roads from one part of his land
to the other.
SEC. 20. And he it enacted. That the said President
and Directors, or a majority of them, shall have
power to purchase with the funds of said company,
and place on any railroad constructed by them under
this Act, all engines, cars or carriages, of any de-
scription whatsoever, which they may deem necessary
or proper for the purposes of transportation on said
' railroad; and they shall have power to charge for
the transportation of persons, goods, produce, mer-
chandise, or property of any kind whatsoever, trans-
ported by them along said railroad, any sum. not
exceeding four cents per mile for all passengers, and
not exceeding eight cents per ton per mile upon all
goods, produce, merchandise or property, of any
description whatsoever transported thereon, except
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