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	canal as may be necessary or convenient for said corporation to
	possess and shall also have the powers of purchase and condemnation
	of lands, property or estate, real or personal, which it may reason-
	ably require for its purposes which are conferred by the Code of
	Public General Laws, article twenty-three, title "Corporations,"
	sub-title "Railroad Corporation," and in addition to the powers
	conferred by said Code it shall have power to alter the grade of
	any public or private road which its railroad may cross.
	SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That said corporation shall
	grant to the Western Maryland railroad company the right to
	connect with its railroads and to interchange cars of said Western
	Maryland railroad company over its tracks upon the same terms
	which may be granted by said corporation to the most favored
	customer, and said corporation shall transport freight and passen-	Pro rata.
	gers received from or destined to said Western Maryland railroad
	company at the same rates pro rata as those charged by it upon
	its own road, so that the freest exchange of transportation, both
	of freight and passengers between said company shall always be
	maintained at uniform and equal rates pro rata upon the roads of
	both of said companies.
	SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That said corporation shall at no time
	be owned or controlled by any railroad company owning or opera- ting a competing parallel or nearly parallel road, nor shall it be
	lawful for any such railroad company to purchase, acquire or hold	Ownership-
	any of the stock of said Washington and Cumberland railroad
	company, and any acquisition by any such company of any part
	of said stock shall be absolutely void.
	SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That in case any of the holders of
	bonds issued under the act of eighteen hundred and forty-four,
	chapter two hundred and eighty-one, shall fail or refuse to accept
	the pro rata share of the sum provided to be paid by the said Washington and Cumberland railroad company to the treasurer of	Liens
	the State for the redemption of their said bonds in the act men-
	tioned in section three of this act, or for any other cause in the
	discretion of said president and directors of said company, it shall
	be lawful for the said Washington and Cumberland railroad com-
	pany or its attorney or attorneys duly constituted according to
	law as the assignee of the mortgages executed by said Chesapeake
	and Ohio canal company and of the other liens created by said
	company, to proceed to sell at public sale the whole of said Chesa-
	peake and Ohio canal and all of its property, works and water-
	rights under said mortgages and other liens upon giving ninety
	day's notice of the time and place and terms of sale to the highest
	bidder, at which sale it shall be lawful for said Washington and	Sale.
	Cumberland railroad company to purchase said mortgaged prop-
	erty; such sale shall be reported to the circuit court of any of the
	counties of Allegany, Washington, Frederick or Montgomery for