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	payable to the bearer thereof ten years after date at
	the office of the said company, in the city of Balti-
	more, with interest thereon, in the, meantime at the
	rate of six per centum per annum, payable semi-
	annually at the said office on the first days of Jan-
	uary and July upon presentation and surrender of
	the coupons for such interest, which shall be annexed	Annexed to
	to such bonds respectively, and the balance of said	bonds.
	agregate amount, to wit, the sum of three hundred
	and seventy dollars and fifty-six cents, shall be paid
	in cash to the Treasurer of the State on or before
	the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-
	eight.
	SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall be the
	duty of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in consideration of the advantages accruing to it	Duty of B. &O.R.R Co.
	from this act, to enter into an agreement under its
	corporate seal, it having first been duly authorized
	so to do by a general meeting of the stockholders of
	said company duly called, in a form approved by the
	Governor and Attorney General of this State, with
	the State of Maryland and the Chesapeake and Ohio
	Canal Company, whereby the said Baltimore and
	Ohio Railroad Company shall bind itself, its succes-	Shall bind
	sors and assigns, to permit any railroad company	itself.
	now incorporated, or to be hereafter incorporated
	under the laws of this State, to connect its railroad
	with the railroad or railroads of said Baltimore and
	Ohio Railroad Company at any point at or near
	Cumberland, in this State, and also at any point
	west of Cumberland, on the line or lines of said Bal-
	timore and Ohio Railroad Company within this
	State ; the point or points of junction to be desig-	Pointsof
	nated by the railroad company or companies desir-	junction to be
	ing to make such connection, subject, however, to	designated
	the approval of the Board of Public Works of the
	State of Maryland, in case of any dissent on the
	part of said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
	as to the point or points so designated ; and the said
	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company shall also in
	the contract aforesaid bind itself, its successors and
	assigns to receive and transport over its main stem
	and the branches thereof now constructed or here-
	after to be constructed, and to deliver at the basins	Deliver at
	of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company at or	the basins.
	near Cumberland, or within four miles thereof, on