JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 247

	Provided however, that when said coal, lumber, pig-
	iron, ores of all kinds and stone, are delivered to the
	said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in cars
	belonging to any other person, persons, corporation,
	or corporations, such person or persons, corporation
	or corporations, shall be entitled to, and receive from
	said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, an al-	in allowance
	lowance of one-fourth of one cent per ton of two
	thousand pounds per mile, on the coal, lumber, pig-
	iron, ores of all kinds, and stone so transported on
	the main stem of said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
	Company, or the branches thereof as aforesaid ; and
	the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in
	transporting said coal and other articles, hereinbe-
	fore mentioned, shall use reasonable dispatch ; and
	the cars containing the same, shall be given the same facilities as cars composing other freight trains on	Given the same facilities
	the line of said railroad, and the said cars contain-
	ing said coal, lumber, pig-iron, ores of all' kinds and
	stone shall be unloaded by the Chesapeake and Ohio
	Canal Company with reasonable dispatch, and said
	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company shall also,
	in the contract aforesaid, bind itself, its successors
	and assigns, to forward its cars from the main stem
	and branches thereof to any coal mine which may be
	on any lateral railroad now or hereafter connected
	with said main stem or branch thereof west of Cum-
	berland, for the purpose of transporting coal and
	other articles hereinbefore mentioned in car loads
	over such lateral railroads, and over the said main
	stem and branches of said Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
	road Company to the said basins of said Chesapeake
	and Ohio Canal Company, and shall receive for the	For the use
	use of said cars on any such lateral roads the sum of	of cars.
	one-half of one cent per ton of two thousand pounds
	per mile for the distance said cars may pass over
	such lateral road or roads not belonging to said Balti-
	more and Ohio railroad Company ; provided that
	the rate hereinbefore prescribed to be agreed upon
	for the transportation of lumber intended for ship-
	ment on said canal, or for the use of said canal
	company, shall apply only to lumber which may be	Apply only.
	shipped from points on said main stem not distant
	more than sixty miles westwardly from said canal
	basins at Cumberland ; and provided that nothing
	in this section, nor in the contract to be made there-