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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Shall fail to
furnish cars.

gleet or refuse, on demand, to furnish cars to any
person or corporation for the transportation of coal
over the railway or railways of said company, as re-
quired by the second section of this act, or to trans-
port coal to the point or points to which it is required,
to transport the same as required by said section,
upon the terms provided for by this act, then such
person or corporation, desiring to have coal trans-
ported over the said railway or railways of the said
Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company,

Have the right
to furnish.

or any part thereof, shall then and thereafter have
the right to furnish all or a portion of such cars as
he or it may require for the carriage of his or its
coal, which cars shall be adapted in size and all ne-
cessary particulars, for use on said railway or rail-
ways, and shall be loaded and unloaded in like
manner as other cars used thereon, and it shall be
the duty of said Cumberland and Pennsylvania

Provide mo-
tive power.

Railroad Company to provide the necessary motive
power, and to convey, free of charge, such cars as
may be tendered to it for that purpose, to the point
or points, on said railway or railways of the said
Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
where said cars are needed, and to transport the
coal therein with the same dispatch and in all re-
spects in the same manner that said company may
transport coal in its own cars or in cars provided by
it, and to return such cars, so furnished by any per-
son or corporation after the same shall have been
unloaded, free of charge to the place of shipment of
coal, with the same dispatch as its own cars, and
such cars so furnished by any person or corporation

Exclusive
control.

while the same are in use on the said railway or
railways, shall be under the exclusive control of said
railroad company in all respects as if the same were
its own cars, and shall be subject to the same rules
and regulations, but none other, as the cars of the
said railroad company employed in the transporta-
tion of coal, and every person or corporation, so
furnishing cars for the transportation of his or its
coal over said railway or railways, or any part
thereof, shall be entitled to and shall be allowed an

Abatement,
from rates.

abatement from the rates of tolls and transportation
herein provided, at the rate of one-half cent per ton
per mile, for every ton of coal transported in cars so