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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 required by the second section of this act, or to transport 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 transported 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 necessary particulars, for use on said railway or railways, 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 motive 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 respects 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 person 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 transportation 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