DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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far as the line of this state, and with the consent and ap-
probation of the congress of the United States, (which
they have applied for, and have good reason to expect they
will obtain,) continue the same to the city of Washington,
so as to effect a complete communication between the two
cities by rail ways; and the said company further pro-
pose, that the right and option shall be reserved to the
state, until the end of one year after the communication
by rail way between the said two cities shall be effected and
in operation, either to subscribe for and take stock of the
Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, to the amount of
the whole, or of any part of the funds which shall be ex-
pended by the said company in the construction of the said
rail road, or to take and hold any part of said amount, not
exceeding five-eighths of the whole cost of construction,
and of contingent expenses, in a separate and distinct
stock, limited in its extent and object to the said cost ot
the said rail road authorised by this act, whereby this im-
portant national work will be effected without any advance
of funds, or risk of responsibility by the state, while the
right and option will be secured to the slate to derive a
full portion of its benefits; and this general assembly
deeming it to be beneficial to the state and its citizens, to
authorise the extension and construction of the said rail
road, on the terms proposed by the said company, and the
present being a most propitious moment for the completion
of this highly important and useful object, inasmuch as the
rate of interest is lower than it has ever heretofore been,
and lower than there is any reasonable hope to expect that
it will be hereafter; Therefore,
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1830.
CHAP 158.
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Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Com-
pany shall be, and they are hereby empowered and autho-
rised, to lay out, survey, locate and construct, a rail road
not exceeding sixty-six feet wide on the surface, with the
necessary addition for embankments and excavations, from
such point or place on that part of the Baltimore and Ohio
Rail Road already constructed and in use, not exceeding
eight miles from the city of Baltimore, as the said compa-
ny may deem most convenient, to the line of this state ad-
joining the District of Columbia, in a direction towards the
city of Washington, along the most direct and suitable
route that may be reasonably and conveniently practicable;
and in the survey, location, construction and use of the
said rail road, the said company may and shall have and
exercise all the powers, rights and privileges, which they
are by their charter empowered and authorised to have and
exercise in the survey, location, construction and use of,
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locate road
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