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CHAP. 297.
Authorised to
survey, locate
&c.
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SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of
enabling said corporation to transport the produce of its
mines and manufactories to market and elsewhere, in the
cheapest and most expeditious manner, the said corpo-
fation and the president and directors thereof, shall be,
and are respectively invested with all and singular the
rights, profits, powers, privileges, authorities, immuni-
ties and advantages for the surveying, locating, estab-
lishing and constructing a rail road or rail roads, with
the necessary appurtenances, beginning the same at or
near the mines or manufactories of the said corporation,
and running to a convenient point or points at or near
the town of Cumberland, or to such other point or
points as may best suit the convenience and interest of
said corporation, and for the using, preserving and con-
troling the said rail road or rail roads, and the necessary
vehicles and appurtenances thereto belonging, and every
part thereof, which by the act, and more particularly
the fifteenth section thereof, incorporating the Baltimore
and Ohio Rail Road Company and its several supple-
ments, were for the lawful purposes of said company,
and the benefit of its corporators given, granted, autho-
rised and secured to the said company, and to the presi-
dent and directors respectively, as fully and perfectly as
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Provisoes.
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if the same were herein repeated; provided, that it shall
not be lawful for the said Lulwotth Iron Company to
occupy or use any portion of the lands that may be ne-
cessary 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, 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 incor-
porated under the authority of this State, to connect
with the tail road or rail roads hereby provided for, or
any other rail road, if in the opinion and judgment of
the commissioners of Allcgany county, for the time
being, passed upon hearing of all parties interested, no
injury would be done by such connexion, to the rail road
of said corporation; and that the said corporation shall
transport on its said rail road or rail roads, all persons
and property, at the same rates of toll and prices of
transportation as the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road
Company are, or shall be, by law, allowed to charge
and receive; provided however, that in all cases where a
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