JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 241

	CHAPTER 155.
	AN ACT to adjust and settle finally by an agree-
	ment all pending controversies between the Balti-
	more and Ohio Railroad Company and the State
	of Maryland, by subjecting the franchises and
	property of said company within this State to tax-
	ation for State purposes to a certain extent, and
	by providing for the payment of certain indebted-
	ness of the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
	Company to the said State, and for the establish-
	ment by contract of certain rates of toll and
	transportation for coal, lumber, pig iron, ores of
	all kinds, and stone, transported by the said Bal-
	timore and Ohio Railroad Company to the basins
	of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, at
	or near Cumberland, and by providing on certain
	conditions for the release of the right of the State
	to any proportion of the moneys received by the
	said company for the transportation of passengers
	on its railroad between Baltimore and Washing-
	ton, otherwise than by way of dividends upon its
	stock in the Washington Branch Railroad of said
	company.
	Whereas the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com-
	pany has made application to this General Assembly
	to be released from its contract for payment to the
	State of one-fifth of its receipts for transportation
	of passengers over the Washington Branch of its road, as provided by the eighth section of the act of	Preamble.
	eighteen hundred and thirty-two, chapter one hun-
	dred and seventy-five, on the ground of the said
	contract having become onerous and inequitable in
	its operation since the opening of a competing road, subsequently chartered under the authority of this
	State; and,
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