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hereby authorized, without being required to pay therefor,
to send a copy of each of the volumes that have been or may
be published, to the respective State librarians of the several
States of the Union, and also to each of the Circuit Courts
of the several counties of the State; to the Court of Appeals,
the Land Office, the Library Company of the Baltimore Bar,
and such library or historical association as may be approved
by the Maryland Historical Society, and said society shall
make report to the next General Assembly of the progress
of the work and of all receipts and disbursements under this
Act.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved March 31, 1906.
CHAPTER 257.
AN ACT to amend Chapter 469 of the Acts of 1849, entitled
" An Act to incorporate the Cumberland and Pennsylvania
Railroad Company," and to amend the charter of said
company, so as to prohibit it from allowing its tracks to
connect with, or its tracks, right of way or other property,
to be used by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,
or by any other Railroad Company, which is operated,
owned or controlled by, or whose railroad property is
leased to, the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,
except upon certain conditions.
WHEREAS, By Chapter 469 of the Acts of 1849, the Cum-
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berland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company was chartered
by the State of Maryland; and
WHEREAS, By various and sundry Acts passed thereafter,
the powers, rights and franchises of said railroad company
were greatly enlarged and extended; and
WHEREAS, The tracks of the said Cumberland and Penn-
sylvania Railroad Company now extend from Cumberland,
in Allegany county, Maryland, to Piedmont, in the State of
West Virginia, running through the entire coal basin of said
Allegany county, and to a very large extent controlling the
entire output of coal in this State; and
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