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charge any citizen or corporation connecting with its said railroad,
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 said corporation, from any point on said road to
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, or to the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, or other lines of canals and railroads; provided, that the
said corporation shall return the empty cars of such citizen or cor-
poration to the point from whence they started, free of charge.

1868, ch. 471, sec. 146.

152. No cars shall be placed on any railroad of any such
corporation as aforesaid, unless they be adapted in size and all
necessary particulars 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 exclusive care and charge of said corporation

whilst on its railroad.

Ibid. sec. 147.

153. No railroad built by any mining or other corporation
under the nine preceding sections of this article shall be more
than ten miles in length.

Ibid. sec. 148.

154. Every railroad constructed under the preceding pro-
visions of this article, shall be furnished with all necessary means
for the transportation of all persons and property that may be

offered for transportation thereon; and in all cases other than
that provided for in section 151 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
be authorized 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.

Ibid. sec. 149.

155. Any railroad that may hereafter be constructed or pur-
chased by any such 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