JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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Maryland, and to authorize, to exercise the powers

and privileges of a corporation within the State of

Maryland, for mining and other purposes, " be and

the same is hereby repealed, and the following

Substitute for

section substituted in lieu thereof:

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of

enabling said company to carry on its said business,

Enabling act.

and transport to market the produce of its lands,

mines and works, the said company is hereby invested

with all and singular, the rights, powers and privileges
authorities, immunities and advantages of surveying,

locating, establishing and constructing a railroad

and its necessary appurtenances, beginning the same

at its said lands, mines and works, and running to

some convenient point on or near the Cumberland

and Pennsylvania Railroad, or the Baltimore and

Ohio Railroad, and for using, controlling, preserving

and maintaining the said railroad, its necessary ap-

purtenances, vehicles and equipments, which by the

act of the General Assembly of Maryland, and more

Build railroad

particularly the fifteenth section thereof, incorporating

the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and its

several supplements were, for the lawful purposes of

said company and the benefits of its corporation,

given, granted, authorized and secured to said com-

pany as fully and perfectly as if the same were herein

repeated ; provided, that any corporation, person or

Proviso

persons, shall have the privilege of connecting a lateral
road with the main railroad of said company, and to

transport thereon, its, his or their coal, merchandise or

other property, subject to the reasonable regulations of

said company, and under its exclusive management

and control ; and the payment of such tolls as it may

impose, not exceeding six cents per ton, for each

mile or fraction of a mile, over or under an integral

number of miles, and not exceeding five cents per

mile for each passenger transported thereon.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall

take effect, and be in force from and after the date

In force

of its passage.

Approved, 16th March, 1874.