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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Taken to af

. under, shall be deemed or taken to affect or limit

feet or limit.

the existing rights and privileges of the Baltimore

and Ohio Railroad Company in reference to charges

for tolls or transportation upon its road or branches,

except in so far as they are specially limited by the

provisions of this section and the contract to be

made thereunder; and provided that nothing in this

section contained, or in the contract to be made

thereunder shall be deemed or taken to apply to any

railroad now operated by the Baltimore and Ohio

Railroad Company, under a contract or lease ; and

the said contract so to be entered into by the said

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, shall pro-

In case any
disagreement

vide that in case any disagreement shall arise be-

tween the parties to said contract, as to the proper

interpretation thereof, or as to the rights of any of

the parties under said contract, a bill for the proper

interpretation of said contract in any particular, and

for the enforcement of the rights of any of the par-

ties under said contract, may at any time and from

time to time be filed by any of the parties to said

contract in the Circuit Court of any county in the

State, or in the Circuit Court of Baltimore city ;

Enforcement

and enforcement and execution of any decree which

and executi'n

may be passed in the premises, shall be had in the

manner usual in such cases ; and from any order or

May appeal.

decree passed by any of said courts under any bills so
filed, any of the parties to said contract may appeal
to the Court of Appeals in the manner provided by

the general laws of the State regulating appeals

from courts of equity.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That if this act and all

Shall be ac-

the provisions thereof shall be accepted by the stock-

cepted.

holders of the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Company, at a general meeting of said stockholders,
duly called for said purpose, before the first day of

July, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-

eight, at which said meeting the directors in said

company appointed on the part of the State, are

Directed to

hereby directed to vote the stock owned by the State

vote

in said company in favor of the acceptance of this

act, and of the provisions thereof; and if said com-

pany shall evidence such acceptance by an instru-

ment of writing, duly executed under its corporate

All the other
acts.

seal, and filed in the office of the Secretary of State,
and if all the other acts required by this act to be