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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

crossing the Potomac Wharf Branch of the Cumber-

land and Pennsylvania Railroad with the branch

Have the
same rights.

road aforesaid, said Pennsylvania Railroad Company
shall have the same rights and be subject to. the same
conditions, regulations and limitations as are herein

provided for the crossing of said Potomac Wharf

Branch by the main line of said Pennsylvania Rail-

road Company ; and provided, also, that any crossing
at grade, herein provided for, the trains of the Cum-

Shall have

berland and Pennsylvania Railroad shall have

precedence.

precedence of the trains of the said Pennsylvania.

Railroad in crossing.

SEC. 2. And be ii enacted, That before said cross-

ings shall be made, the president or other authorized

agent of said Pennsylvania Railroad Company shall

First give

first give ten days' notice in writing to the president

notice.

or agent, resident in Cumberland, of the Cumberland

and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, that it, the

said Pennsylvania Railroad Company, proposes to

make said crossings, and specifying in said notice

whether the said crossing of the Potomac Wharf

Branch aforesaid will be made at or above grade,

and also at which of the points above named in said

branch it proposes to cross, and also stating the com-

pensation which said company is willing to pay for
the easement of such crossings ; and if said Cumber-

land and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, having

Refuse the

been notified as aforesaid, shall refuse the terms of,

terms.

or neglect to reply to said notification, and shall pro-

pose no other arrangement upon which both parties

shall agree, then, after the expiration of said tea

days, and the failure to agree as aforesaid, the said

Pennsylvania Railroad Company in Maryland shall

have full power to condemn the easement of such

crossings, in the same mode prescribed for the con-

Power to con-

demnation of the land of individuals by the act of

demn.

eighteen hundred and seventy-six, of the General

Laws of Maryland, chapter two hundred and forty-

two, section eleven.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That said Pennsylvania

Right to cross

Railroad Company shall have the right to cross the

track or tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Company at one point, either at grade or above

grade, and in the exercise of such right shall be sub-