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ART. 40. ] FORMATION, POWERS, AND REGULATION OF CORPORATIONS. 345

road, when using their own cars, a rate not exceeding two cents per
ton per mile, on all coal or other articles that may be transported on
the railroads of such corporation from any point on said road to the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, or to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
or other lines of canals and railroads; provided, that the said cor-

 

poration shall return the empty cars of such citizen or corporation
to the point whence they started, free of charge.

Empty cars re-
turned free of
charge

147. No cars shall be placed on any railroad of any corporation
as aforesaid, unless they be adapted in size and all necessary par-
ticulars to said railroad, in accordance with the regulations of the
said corporation, which shall always provide the necessary motive
power for running said cars, and the said cars shall be in the ex-
clusive care and charge of said corporation whilst on its railroad.

Id s 146
Cars.

148. No railroad, by any mining or other corporation formed
under this article, shall be more than ten miles in length.

Id s 147
Length of min-
ing railroads.

14: 0. Every railroad constructed under the provisions of this
article shall provide all necessary means of, and transport all per-
sons and property that may be offered for, transportation on its said
railroad, and in all cases other than those provided for in section
one hundred and forty-five of this article, or in all cases in which
the said corporation furnishes the said cars and motive power, and
is subject to all the expenses of transportation, it shall he author-

Id s 148
Transportation.

ized to charge rates not exceeding two and a half cents per ton per
mile on all coal or other articles, and two cents per mile for every
passenger that may be transported on said road

Bates.

150. Any railroad that may hereafter be constructed or pur-
chased by any corporation formed under this article, shall be so
located or used as to occupy as little space at the passage through
the gap at Will's mountain, near Cumberland, as may be compatible
with the full and convenient use of said railroad, and in such man-
ner as to produce as little obstruction as may be to the location of
other railroads through said gap by any corporation now authorized,
or that may hereafter be authorized, to construct the same under
the authority of this article.

Id a 149
Will's moun-
tain.

151. All questions of difference that may arise between any two
corporations incorporated under this article, or between any cor-
poration and a citizen in regard to locating, constructing, or work-
ing its railroad or railroads, or in respect to the charges of trans-
portation thereon, may be submitted to and decided by the board
of public works, and the decision of the said board shall be final in
all cases submitted to them.

Id s 150
Disputes to be
decided by
board of public
works

152. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to
interfere with any lien law now in force or that may hereafter be
enacted.

SAVING INSTITUTIONS

Id s 151
Lieu law

153. Any saving institution incorporated under this article shall
be capable of receiving from any person or persons, or bodies cor-

Id s 152
Deposits



 

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