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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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Ohio Railroad Company, or by any other railroad company
leased, operated, owned or controlled by the said Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, unless the said Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company shall on or before said date so arrange
its freight charges upon coal delivered to it from the Cumber-
land and Pennsylvania Railroad Company for shipment over
its lines, that the joint and combined freight charges of the
said two railroad companies shall not exceed the lowest
total freight charges upon coal shipped to the same destina-
tion over the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com-
pany, or over the line of any railroad company leased,
operated, owned or controlled by the said Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company from any point in the State of
Pennsylvania or West Virginia, which is as far or further
distant from such destination as or than the point in Alle-
gany county, at which such coal is delivered to the Cumber-
land and Pennsylvania Railroad Company; the intention of
this provision being to provide that shippers of coal from
Allegany county, in the State of Maryland, shall not be
required to pay greater freight charges than shippers of
coal from the States of Pennsylvania and West Virginia are
required to pay upon their coal hauled equally far or
further.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be and is
hereby made the duty of the State's Attorney for Allegany
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Inquiry to be
made.
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county on the first day of June next, and at any time there-
after, when he may believe there is reason for so doing,
to cause inquiry to be made as to whether the said Cumber-
land and Pennsylvania Railroad Company is permitting its
tracks to connect with those of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, or is permitting, suffering or allowing its
tracks, right of way or other property to be used by the
said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, or by any other
railroad companies leased, operated, owned or controlled by
the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in violation
of the terms of this Act; and in case the said State's attor-
ney shall have reason to believe, on or after said date, that
the said Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is not complying with the terms and provisions of this Act,
then it shall be the duty of the said State's Attorney to insti-
tute proceedings in the Circuit Court for Allegany county,
Maryland, against the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad
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