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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

intersection with the system of the West Virginia Central

and Pittsburg Railway Company, near Cumberland; to enable

it to exercise the powers of condemnation prescribed for

railroad companies under the General Laws of Maryland;

to declare and confirm its right to cross and recross with

its railroad the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the Potomac

Valley and Potomac river, and ratifying the action of the

Board of Public Works of Maryland in approving the plans

of said railroad company for crossing said canal; to ex-

pressly authorize it to condemn certain parcels of land of

the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company lying on the

northern and southern sides of said canal, together with the

easement of crossing the same with bridges and railroad.

and the easement of the right during construction, to erect

and use temporary platforms, bridges and other appliances

in, upon or over said canal; to provide for transporting waste

material from the north side to the south side thereof, and to

give the said railroad company other powers proper to accom-

plish said objects and purposes.

WHEREAS, By Chapter 71 of the Acts of 1872, said Western

Extension of
railroad

Maryland Railroad Company was authorized to construct a

route.

railroad from some suitable and convenient point in the City

of Baltimore to Williamsport, in Washington County, and to

Cumberland, in Allegany County, or to any point westward

or northward thereof; and,

WHEREAS, By Chapter 129 of the Acts of 1902, it was re-

Reaching coal

quired of said Western Maryland Railroad Company that its

lands.

owners should extend its railroad facilities or supply and fur-

nish railroad connections and facilities in conjunction there-

with to the coal regions of Western Maryland, West Virginia

or Pennsylvania; and,

WHEREAS, Said Western Maryland Railroad Company, in

Charter pow-

compliance with its said charter powers, has constructed its

ers.

railroad from said Baltimore City to the said town of Wil-

liamsport, and from thence, by its ownership of the stock and

control of the Potomac Valley Railroad, has extended its rail-

road westward as far as Big Pool, in Washington County,

Maryland; and,

WHEREAS, In compliance with said requirements of said Act

of 1902, said railroad company has located and is now con-