EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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next a third railroad will have completed its tracks from
Cumberland to seaboard, both of which said railroads could
connect with the tracks of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and could haul coal from Allegany county
to the seaboard; and
WHEREAS, At present the tracks of the Cumberland and
Pennsylvania Railroad Company connect with those of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and its tracks, right
of way and other property are now being used by the said
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and by other rail-
road company or companies which are operated, owned or
controlled by, or whose railroad property or properties is or
are leased to the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com-
pany; and
WHEREAS, It is impossible for the State to amend the
charter of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company so as
to compel said company to give fair and just treatment to
this State and to its citizens and to the owners of coal prop-
erty therein; and
WHEREAS, The said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com-
pany, although chartered by this State for the purpose of
promoting the interest of the State and developing its indus-
tries, and although it has, from the time its original charter
was granted, received the most liberal treatment at the
hands of this State, it is now and has been for a long time
retarding the development of the coal industry of this State
by compelling the shippers of coal herein to pay greater
freight charges thereon than it charges to shippers from the
Pennsylvania and West Virginia fields, as hereinbefore
recited, although the haul in the latter case is much longer
than in the former; and
WHEREAS, It is thus manifest that the corporate powers of
both the railroad companies hereinbefore mentioned have
been and are now being grossly abused; now, therefore,
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land. That Chapter 469 of the Acts of 1849 be and the same

CHAP. 257
Preamble.

is hereby amended by making the following addition thereto,
to wit: The Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany shall not, after the 31st day of May next, permit its
tracks to connect with the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, and shall not permit its tracks, right of
way or other property to be used by the said Baltimore and

Chapter 469
the Acts of
1849 amended.