1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 395.

CHAP. 395.

Passed June 4, 1863

An act for the promotion of Internal Improvement,

If Ches. & Ohio ca-

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

nal com..and Balt. and Ohio rail road com accept this act, &c.

Maryland, That if the Chesapeake and Ohio canal company and the Baltimore and Ohio rail road compa-

ny in general meeting of said corporations respective-

ly assembled, shall approve, assent and agree to the

several provisions of this act, so far as they are ap-

plicable to said corporations respectively, and shall

severally communicate said approval, assent and

agreement under their corporate seals, and the signa-

tures of their presidents to the Governor of this State,

By 1st August next

on or before the first day of August next, the Treasu-

Treas. W. S shall

rer of the Western Shore of Maryland shall subscribe

subscribe three millions to each

to the capital stock of each of said corporations the

sum of three millions of dollars, and pay for the same

in the manner and upon the conditions hereinafter

Whereupon restric-

mentioned, and from the date of the said subscription

tion on rail road

to ceasee

the stipulation heretofore made by the Baltimore and

Ohio rail road company, and so much of the act of As-

sembly heretofore passed, restricting the said company

from proceeding with the construction of its rail road in

the valley of the Potomac River, above Harper's Ferry,

until after the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal company,

shall have finished its canal to Cumberland, or other-

wise or the time limited by law for its being completed

to said town, shall have elapsed as imposes said re-

strictions, or is inconsistent with the provisions of

May proceed pari

this act, shall be, null and void, and the said rail road

passed

company may thenceforth proceed with the construc-

tion of its work, pari passu with, but without preced-

ing the construction of the said canal or its works, in

the said valley where the said rail road and canal or

their works will be in juxta position; and all the pas-

ses of said river where the said canal and rail road

must from the nature of the ground be brought into

contact, the construction of said canal and rail road

shall proceed jointly upon such plan and for such a

Commissioners

distance as the commissioners, whose appointment is

hereinafter provided for shall determine; provided,