1878.] OF THE SENATE. 489

roads not belonging to said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com-
pany; provided, that the rate hereinbefore prescribed, to
be agreed upon for the transportation of lumber intended for
shipment on said Canal, or for the use of said Canal Company,
shall apply only to lumber which may be shipped frompoints
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 con-
tract to be made thereunder, shall be deemed or taken to
affect or limit the existing rights and privileges of the Balti-
more 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 provi-
ded, That nothing in this section contained, or in the con-
tract to be made thereunder, shall be deemed or taken to ap-
ply 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 provide that in case any disagree-
ment shall arise between 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 inter-
pretation of said contract, in atay particular, and for the en-
forcemeat of the rights of any of the parties under said con-
tract, 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, and enforcement and execution of any decree which
may be passed in the premises, shall be had in the manner
usual in such cases ; and from any order or decree passed by
any of said Courts under any bill 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 regula-
ting appeals from Courts of Equity.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That if this Act and all the pro-
visions thereof shall be accepted by the stockholders of the
said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, at a general
meeting of said stockholders duly called for said purpose be-
fore 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 hereby di-
rected to vote the stock owned by the State in said Company,
in favor of the acceptance of this Act, and of the provisions
thereof, and if said Company shall evidence such acceptance
by an instrument of writing duly executed under its corpo-
rate seal, and filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and