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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Not affect.

responding and ratable reduction shall at the same time be made in the rates per ton per mile for toll and transportation for each of the other said distances, except that nothing in this act contained shall apply to or in any manner affect the contract by and under which the said railroad company purchased the railway formerly belonging to the George's Creek Coal and Iron Company.

Furnish facilities for transportation.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, to provide and furnish reasonable facilities, and all cars, including gondolas where required for local trade; and other vehicles and motive power for receiving and forwarding all coal that may be offered for transportation over said railway or railways or any part thereof, and for delivering said coal over the same at such place or places on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, or its basins or any other

Proviso.

place or places at or near Cumberland, as the owner or consignor may designate; provided that such place or places of delivery shall be furnished with suitable means and facilities for unloading and delivering the said coal, and provided further that if any such designated place of delivery shall be beyond the terminus of any such railway or railways, the owner or consignor of such coal, or the owner or owners of such place of delivery shall procure for said railroad company for the transportation of such coal, upon reasonable terms and conditions and at a cost to said railroad company not exceeding one cent per

Conditions.

ton for the distance, the right of using the track or tracks of any railroad, now or hereafter connecting such place or places of delivery with the railway or railways of said railroad company, and provided that in ascertaining the amount to be charged for the transportation of such coal, the transportation over such connecting roads shall be included and regarded as part of the whole distance of transportation of said Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any person or corporation desiring to have coal transported over the said railway or railways of said Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, or any part thereof,