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now has the control and management of the said Cumberland
and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and of its tracks, right
of way and other property, and in this manner has obtained,
and now has practically the control of the output of coal in
this State; and
WHEREAS, The said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com-
pany has through subsidiary corporations controlled by it
become largely interested in the coal fields of West Virginia
and Pennsylvania and has fixed freight charges upon coal
shipped from points in said Allegany county over the lines
of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company and
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to tidewater
points, and freight charges upon coal shipped from points
on its line in Pennsylvania and West Virginia to the same
tidewater points, so as to compel shippers of coal from Alle-
gany county, in the State of Maryland, to pay on an average
fifteen cents a ton more for coal shipped from said county
to such tidewater points than shippers in Pennsylvania and
West Virginia are required to pay on coal shipped from said
States to the same tidewater points, although the Allegany
county coal field in Maryland is much nearer said tidewater
points than either of the coal fields in the other States men-
tioned; and
WHEREAS, It was the purpose of the State in granting to
the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company its
charter hereinbefore mentioned, and in afterwards extending
and enlarging its corporate rights and franchises, to promote
the development of the Allegany county coal field, and thus
increase the material prosperity of the State; and
WHEREAS, It is now apparent that the extensive corporate
rights and franchises granted by this State to the said Cum-
berland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company are not now
being used and exercised for the purpose intended by the
State, but on the other hand are being used to the detriment
of the material interests of the State and in such a way as to
promote the development of coal fields in the State of Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia to the disadvantage of the State of
Maryland; and
WHEREAS, There now exists another railroad running from
Cumberland to the seaports, and by the first day of June
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