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ting or by advertisement in a newspaper published
in Hagerstown, for at least three weeks successively,
of the time and place of holding such inquisition;
the said jury shall reduce the inquisition to writing,
shall sign and seal the same, and it shall be returned
by the said sheriff to the clerk of the Circuit Court
for Washington county, and be by the said clerk
filed in his office, and shall be confirmed by the said
Circuit Court at its next session, if no sufficient
cause to the contrary be shown, and when confirmed
shall be recorded by said clerk, at the expense of
said company; but if set aside, the said court may
direct another inquisition to be taken in the manner
above prescribed, and such inquisition shall describe
the property taken, the bounds of the land condemn-
ed, and the quanty or duration of interest in the same
condemned for said company; and such valuation,
when paid into court, or paid or tendered to the
owner or owners of said property, or to his, her, or
their legal representative, and not before, shall enti-
tle the said company to the estate, use and interest
thus valued, as fully as if it had been conveyed by
the owner or owners of the same, and the valuation,
if not received when tendered, may at any time there-
after be recovered from said company, without costs,
by the said owner or owners, his, her or their legal
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representatives; Provided, that any company now or
hereafter to be incorporated, shall have the privilege
of connecting a lateral railroad with the main rail-
road or railroads hereby authorised to be constructed,
subject to reasonable regulations of said company
and the payment of such tolls as they may impose
not exceeding three cents per ton, per mile, on all
goods, merchandize and other property, and not ex-
ceeding two cents per mile for every passenger trans-
ported thereon, and that the said company be and
they are hereby required to transport on said road or
roads all coal or other property of every description
which may be brought to the established depots of
said railroad or railroads for transportation under
the restrictions above stated.
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Proviso.
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SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That nothing herein
contained shall be construed to give to the said com-
pany banking privileges; and the Legislature here-
by reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal the
charter hereby created.
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Banking for-
bid.
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