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chase and hold any such lands as may be necessary
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Purchase and hold
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for their coal deposites, and in order to connect their
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lands
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business in a suitable manner with the basin and its
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boating, and for the purpose of laying out, constructing
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and repairing said rail road, the company shall have
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the right of passing over the lands lying on the tract
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Power to condemn lands
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of said road, and of condemning the same if necessary
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according to the laws of the State of Maryland, in
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such case provided in the charter of the Baltimore and
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Limit
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Ohio Rail Road Company, to an extent not exceeding
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four rods in width throughout: provided, that any per-
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son or persons have the privilege of connecting a later-
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al road with the main rail road of the company, sub-
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ject to the reasonable regulations of the company, and
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Polls
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the payment of such toll as they may impose, not ex-
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ceeding one cent per ton per mile, on all goods and
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merchandize or other property, and not exceeding two
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cents per mile for every passenger transported there-
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on, and that said company be, and they are hereby re-
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quired to transport on the said road, all the coal or
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property of every description, which may be brought
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to said rail road for transportation, under the restric-
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tions above recited, and provided that this grant of a
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rail road to the company, shall be no bar to any other
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rail road, which may he located along said valley, and
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to cross said rail road at such points as may he neces-
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sary, which the Legislature may think proper to au-
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thorise for any other company or individual who may
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apply for the same, And provided also, That in pausing
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through the gorge of Will's mountain, this compa-
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ny's rail road shall be so located and regulated, as not
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Rights or other
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to interfere with the rights of the Chesapeake and
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companies
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Ohio Canal Company, or with the rights of the Balti-
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more and Ohio Rail Road Company, or any others who
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may occupy this common gap, under the provisions of
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existing laws of this State, or laws hereafter to be
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Reservation of
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passed to regulate all works passing through said
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power to regisla-ture
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gorge for the common good, which right of regulation
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is hereby reserved to any future Legislature.
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Subscriptions
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the subscriptions to
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the capital stock of said company, shall be raised un-
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der the direction of the said J. L. Skinner, John R,
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