488 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 14;

of two thousand pounds per mile for tolls and transportation
for all distances exceeding twenty-eight miles, counting west
from the said basins at Cumberland, Maryland, and for all
distances from points on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, west of said Piedmont Station, which said respect-
ive rates shall be in full for all charges for tolls and trans-
portation, and shall include all charges of said Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, for receiving, weighing and deliv-
ering said coal, lumber, pig-iron, ores of all kinds, and
stone, and to return said cars, in which said coal, lumber,
pig-iron, ores of all kinds and stone have been loaded, after
the same shall have been unloaded, free of charge, to the
place or places where they were respectively received, with
reasonable dispatch, if so requested by the consigners of said
coal, lumber, pig-iron, ores of all kinds, and stone, or the
owners of said cars ; 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 cor-
porations, such person or persons, corporation or corpora-
tions shall be entitled to and receive from said Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, an allowance 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 Com-
pany, or the branches thereof as aforesaid ; and the said
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in transporting said
coal and other articles hereinbefore mentioned, shall use
reasonable dispatch, and the cars containing the same shall
be given the same facilities as cars composing other freight
trains on the line of said railroad, and the cars containing
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 Cumberland,
for the purpose of transporting coal and other article's here-
inbefore mentioned, in carloads over such lateral railroads,
and over the said main stem and branches of said Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, to the said basins of said Ches-
apeake and Ohio Canal Company ; and shall receive for the
use of said cars on any such lateral roads, the sum of 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