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CHAP. 195.
May dismiss
officers, &c.
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ny, and shall also have power to require settlements,
statements and accounts relating to the business of said
company, from officers and agents in their employment,
and may also dismiss any president, director, officer, or
agent, and appoint others in their stead.
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President and
directors in-
vested with
powers, &c.
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SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of ena-
bling the said company to transport the produce of the
mines, and the produce of that part of the county through
which their rail road shall pass, in the cheapest and most
expeditious manner, the said company and the president
and directors thereof, shall be and they are hereby respec-
tively invested with all and singular, the rights, powers,
privileges, authorities, immunities, and advantages, for
the surveying, locating, establishing and constructing a
rail road and its necessary appurtenances, beginning the
same at the mines of the said company, and running to a
convenient point or points on the basin or canal of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, at or near the
town of Cumberland in this State, and for the using, pre-
serving, and controlling the said rail road, its necessary
vehicles and appurtenances and every part thereof, or
borrowing money on the credit of the company for its
lawful purposes, which by the act incorporating the Bal-
timore and Ohio Rail Road Company and its several sup-
plements, were for the lawful purposes of the said. com-
pany, and the benefit of its corporators given, granted,
authorised and secured to said company and its president
and directors respectively, as fully and as perfectly as if
the same were herein severally repeated; and if the said
company find it more convenient, the president and direc-
tors are hereby fully authorised to construct for the time
being, a train road or rail road, so as to enable it to carry
the coal to some point on the rail road of the Maryland
and New York Iron and Coal Company, and for that pur-
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Provisoes.
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pose they are hereby invested with all the powers afore-
said; provided, that it shall not be lawful for the said
company to occupy or use any portion of the lands that
may be necessary for the accommodation of the canal and
works of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, or
for the main route of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road,
or that may be within the limits of either of the public
roads there now existing, in Allegany county, or that
may hereafter be established according to existing laws,
except to cross these roads without injury to the same;
and provided also, that full right and privilege is hereby
reserved to the citizens of this State, or any company now
or hereafter to be incorporated under authority of this
State, to connect with the rail road hereby provided for,
any other rail road, if in the opinion and judgment of the
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