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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 333.

AN ACT supplementary to the act of eighteen hun-

dred and twenty-six, chapter one hundred and

twenty-three, entitled "An act to incorporate the

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company," and to

authorize the construction of Lateral Railroads from

its Philadelphia Branch Railroad, and to regulate

the mode of condemning property by said Railroad

Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

B. & O.R.R. au-
thorized to con-

Company be and it is hereby authorized and empow-

struct railroads

ered to construct lateral railroads in any direction

whatsoever in connection with its Philadelphia Branch

Railroad, which said Philadelphia Branch Railroad

said company is now constructing from a connection

with its main stem in the city of Baltimore to the

boundary line between Delaware and Maryland, in

the county of Cecil; but said company shall only con-

struct said lateral railroads in connection with said

Where in Balti-
more city.

Philadelphia Branch Railroad in that part of the city

of Baltimore known as "Canton," and opposite

" Locust Point," in said city, and south of Toone street,

and in the following counties, namely, Baltimore,

Comities.

Harford, Cecil and the other counties upon the Eastern

Shore of Maryland; and in the location of any part of

said lateral railroads said company may, with the

assent of the county commissioners, occupy any public

highway in said counties, upon such terms as said

county commissioners may prescribe; and in the con-

struction, use and operation of said lateral railroads,

Rights, powers
and privileges.

said company shall have all the rights, powers and

privileges given to it by the said act to which this is

a supplement, and the several amendments and sup-

plements thereto, in relation to the construction, use

and operation of its main line and the branches thereof,

together with the right and power of crossing other

railroads, and condemning an easement therefor, as

provided by the act of eighteen hundred and eighty-

Subject to tax-

two, chapter two hundred and twenty-three; but any

ation.

lateral road so constructed shall be subject to the same

state, county and municipal taxation as is imposed