JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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quisition shall be made and returned as aforesaid,

and in- estimating the damages for land, earth, gravel,

timber or other materials taken for the use and oc-

cupation of the said railroad, the jury shall assess

the same at a just valuation.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty

of the said company, to construct and keep in repair,

Duty of the

good and sufficient passages, across their said railroad,

company

where any public road shall intersect and cross the

same, so that that the passage of persons, carriages,

vehicles, horses, and cattle along the said road shall

not be obstructed; and likewise, when the said rail-

road shall intersect any farm, to provide and keep

in repair a suitable passage across the said railroad,

for the use of the said farm ; and if in the location

of the said railroad it shall be found necessary to

pass over any navigable river, canal, or creek by a

bridge or other edifice, it shall be the duty of the

said company, to construct and keep in repair a suf-

ficient pass or draw, in said bridge or edifice, over

the channel or deepest part of said river, canal, or

creek, for the purpose of letting vessels pass and re-

pass through the same, which draw shall at all times

on the approach of any steamboat or masted vessel

or vessels, be drawn at the cost of the said railroad

company, so as to admit the free passage of all such

vessel or vessels.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That if any person or per-

sons shall wilfully or knowingly obstruct, break, in-

Obstruct road

jure, or destroy any part of the roadway, culvert,

bridges, buildings, tracts, or other appurtenances of

the said railroad or its branch roads, or any part there-

of, tobe erected by the said company in pursuance of

this act, or shall in any manner obstruct the free pas-

sage along the said railroad or its bran ch roads, he, she,

Damages

or they shall forfeit and pay, to the said company,

three times the actual damages so sustained, to be

sued for and recovered, with costs of suit, before any

justice of the peace or in any court having cognizance

thereof, by action of debt, or on the case, in the name

and for the use of the said company.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said Baltimore,

Chesapeake, and Delaware Bay Railroad Company,

Authorized to
Consolidate

are hereby authorized and empowered to unite, con-

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