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if all the other Acts required by this Act to be done and per-
formed by the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
are done and performed by said Company in the manner
required by this Act, on or before the said first day of July,
in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and the

Governor of this State, by and with the advice of the Attor-

ney General thereof, shall so certify, then the said Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company shall not be required to account
for or pay into the Treasury of this State any portion of the
amount by it received before the first day of January, in the
year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, or thereafter, or
to be thereafter received for the transportation of passengers

on its railroad between Baltimore and Washington, or any
part of its railroad between Baltimore and Washington,

other than by way of dividends on the stock of the said State
in the Washington Branch Railroad of said Company, or

other than as is hereinbefore provided, and said Company
shall thenceforth forever be released from its obligation to
pay into the Treasury of the State the one-fifth of the whole
amount which may have been or may hereafter be received
by said Company for the transportation of passengers on its
Washington Branch Railroad, as provided by the Eighth

Section of the Act of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, Chapter
one hundred and seventy-five, and every part thereof; but
upon the failure of the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Company to comply with each and all the requirements of
this Act on or before the first day of July, eighteen hundred
and seventy-eight, then and in such event this Act and every
matter and thing therein contained, shall bs utterly null and

void, and the said State of Maryland shall hold and enforce
all its claims and rights against the said Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company in the same manner, and to as large an

extent as if this Act had never been passed.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That upon the acceptance of this
Act by the said Company, as provided by the Sixth Section
thereof, and the receipt by the Treasurer of the money men-
tioned, in the Third and Fourth Sections, and of the bonds
mentioned in the Fourth Section, all the suits now pending
between the State and the said Company in reference to its
receipts for transportation of passengers on its Washington
Branch, and the tax upon its gross receipts, and the divi-
dends upon the State's stock to October, eighteen hundred
and seventy-seven, in the Washington Branch shall be en-
tered agreed, on payment of all costs by the said Company.

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from and after the date of its passage, subject, nevertheless,

to all the conditions and limitations in reference to the pro-