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be, and it is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into
a contract or contracts with the Baltimore and Potomac Rail-
road Company, the Northern Central Railroad Company, and
the Union Railroad Company, of Baltimore, or any of them,
for the use of the tracks of said Company, or any of them,
within the limits of the City of Baltimore, and to tide water
at Canton, and that any contract or contracts heretofore made
for that purpose, shall have the same effect as though the
same had been made, after their Act of Assembly had gone
into effect.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said Western Mary-
land Railroad Company, be, and it is hereby authorized to
be the lessee of the line of railroad, connecting the railroad
of said company with the village of Emmittsburg, in Fred-
erick county.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Western Mary-
land Railroad Company, be, and it is hereby authorized and

empowered to require, hold and dispose of any real or lease-
hold property and estate, in the City of Baltimore, which the
President and Directors of said Company, or a majority of
them, shall deem necessary, for depots, engine houses, or
other purposes appropriate to its business, whether such pro-
perty be adjacent to the Railroad of said Company, or sepa-
rated from it, and capable of being used only by means of
the tracks of some of the other Railroad Companies men-
tioned in the first Section of their Act.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That for the acquisition of such
property, or the use and occupation of the same, the said
Western Maryland Railroad Company shall possess all the
powers, for condemnation, as well as negotiation, provided by
the Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at
January Session, 1872, chapter 71, and entitled an Act to
amend the Act incorporating the Western Maryland Railroad
Company, and to give additional powers to said Company.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That none of the provisions of their
Act shall be of any effect or force whatever, unless said Com-
pany shall first consent and agree that all of the property of
said Company shall be assessable and liable for State, county
and municipal taxation.

SEC. 6. Add be it enacted, That the General Assembly
hereby reserves to itself the power to amend, alter and repeal

this Act, at pleasure.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from its passage.

Which were adopted.
Said bill as amended was then read the second time.