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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the line of the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,

the points of deli very on said basins to be designated

by the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company

or by the shippers, all coal, lumber, pig-iron, ores of

all kinds, and stone intended for shipment on said

Chesapeake add Ohio Canal, or for the use of the

said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, which

May be offer'd

may be offered to it at any point on its main stem

or the branches thereof now constructed or hereafter

to be constructed, in bulk or in loaded cars, as the

same may have been originally offered to said railroad

company on its main stem or any branch thereof as

Uniform rate
of charge.

aforesaid, without re-loading or re-shipment, at a uni-
form rate of charge of two and one-half cents per ton

of two thousand pounds per mile, for tolls and trans-

portation for all distances under twenty miles count-

ing west from the basins of the Chesapeake and Ohio

Canal, at Cumberland, Maryland ; and at a uniform"

rate of one and three-fourth cents per ton of two thous-

and pounds per mile for tolls and transportation for all
distances exceeding twenty miles, and not exceeding

twenty-eight miles, counting west from the said basins

at Cumberland, Maryland, and at the same rate from

Piedmont Station on the said Baltimore and Ohio

Railroad to the said basins at Cumberland, Mary-

land ; and at a uniform rate of one and one-quarter

cents per ton of two thousand pounds per mile for

tolls and transportation for all distances exceeding

Counting

twenty-eight miles, counting west from the said ba-

west

sins at Cumberland, Maryland, and for all distances

from points on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio

Railroad, west of said Piedmont Station; which

In full foi

said respective rates shall be in full for all charges

all charges.

for tolls and transportation, and shall include all

charges of said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com-

pany for receiving, weighing and delivering said coal,
lumber, pig-iron, ores of all kinds, and stone ; but
the shippers of such articles shall cause the same to be

loaded on the cars at their own expense ; and to return

said cars, in which said coal, lumber, pig-iron, ores

of all kinds, and stone, have been loaded, after the

Freeof charge

same shall have been unloaded, free of charge, to

the place, or places, where they were respectively re-

ceived, with reasonable dispatch, if so requested by

the consignors of said coal, lumber, pig-iron, ores of

all kinds, and stone, or the owners of said cars ;