LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1844.

more, to bring into this State, from the State of Virginia,
a negro slave, named Georgiana; provided, she comply
with the last proviso of the fourth section of the act of
Assembly, passed at December session eighteen hundred
and thirty-one, chapter three hundred and twenty-three,
and also, the requisitions of the act, passed at December
session eighteen hundred and thirty-three, chapter eighty-
seven, and also, the requirements of the act of Assembly,
passed at December session eighteen hundred and thirty-
nine, chapter fifteen.

CHAP. 103.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 103.

An act authorising a reduction of the maximum charge for
Passengers on the Washington Branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio Rail Road, as at present established.

Passed Fab.
13, 1845.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the first day of June next,
the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, be and they
are hereby authorised to reduce the rate of tolls for pas-
sengers, from time to time in their discretion, upon the
Washington Branch of said road, by carrying them to and

After 1st June
fare from Balt.
to Washington
lowered.

from the respective cities of Washington and Baltimore,
for a less sum than is now authorised; provided, that the
charge for a passenger to and from the said cities, shall
not be less than one dollar and fifty cents; and provided
always, that one-fifth of all such passage money so receiv-
ed be accounted for, and paid into the State Treasury as
now required by law.

Provisoes.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Baltimore and
Ohio Rail Road Company be, and they are hereby autho-
rised to transport passengers on the said Washington road
to and from the respective cities of Washington and Balti-
more, in companies not less than twenty, for a less sum
than is now authorised, in cases where such passengers

Authorised to
transport pas-
sengers, &c.

shall perform the trip to and from the two cities, within
the period of three days; provided always, that one-fifth
part of all such passage money so received, be accounted
for and paid into the State Treasury as aforesaid.

Proviso

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Baltimore and
Ohio Rail Road Company, shall also, be authorised and
required to transport way passengers upon the said Wash-
ington Branch, in proportion to the charge from city to city,
with the same proviso and subject to the same condition as
is expressed in the first and second sections of this act, with
regard to passengers from city to city.

Way passen-
gers in pro-
portion.