JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 99
present session of the. General Assembly of Mary-
land, entitled 'An act to amend the charter of the
Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
passed at the January session eighteen hundred and
forty-nine, chapter four hundred and sixty-nine, ' "
be and the same -is hereby repealed, except so far as
said act repeals the first section of the act of Assem-
bly passed at the January session eighteen hundred
and sixty-eight, chapter fifteen, therein particularly
referred to and repealed, and that in lieu and sub-
stitution thereof, it is hereby enacted as follows: the
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said Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany is hereby authorized to charge for tolls upon
and the transportation of coal and tire brick, trans-
ported by said company over and upon its railway
or railways in the State of Maryland, now owned,
controlled or -operated by said company or which
may hereafter be owned, controlled or operated by
said company, any sum not exceeding the following
rates, that is to say, on all coal transported by said
company, when and where the distance of such trans-
portation shall not exceed four miles a rate not ex-
ceeding four cents per ton per mile, and not exceed-
ing three cents per ton per mile when and where
the distance of such transportation shall be more
than four miles, and not exceeding ten miles, and
not exceeding two cents per ton per mile when and
where the distance of such transportation shall ex-
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ceed ten miles. Provided that the gross charge or
toll for the transportation of coal over or upon said
railway or railways when and where the distance of
such transportation shall exceed four miles, shall not
be less than the gross sum hereby authorized to be
charged for transportation of coal for a distance of
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four miles; and provided further that the charges
for toll upon, and the transportation of coal on said
railway or railways or any part thereof, shall be uni-
form and equal at the same rates per ton per mile for
the above prescribed distances, subject to the terms
of the first proviso in this section, to all persons and
corporations furnishing such coal for transportation,
and that whenever said railroad company sh^ll make
any reduction in the rate per ton per mile, hereby
authorized to be charged for toll and transportation,
for any one of the distances herein mentioned, a cor-
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