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amount of such compensation, the jury shall not
make an allowance or deduction on account of any
real or supposed benefits which the parties inter-
rested may derive from the construction of any
railroad or railroads, and the said company shall
give notice to all persons whose interests are to be
affected by the condemnation of any laud, in writ-
ing or by advertisement in a newspaper published
in the city of Cumberland for at least three weeks
successively, of the time and place of holding such
inquisition; the said jury shall reduce the inquisi-
tion 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 Allegany county, and be
by said Clerk filed in his office, and shall be con-
firmed by the said Circuit Court at its next ses-
sion, if no sufficient cause to the contrary bo
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
condemned, and the quantity or duration of
interest in the same condemned for said com-
pany, 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 rep-
resentative, and not before, shall entitle the said
company to the estate, use and interest thus valued
as freely as if it had been conveyed by the owners
of the same, and the valuation if not received when
tendered may at any time thereafter be recovered
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from said company without cost by the said owner
or owners, his, her or their legal representatives;
Provided, that any company now or hereafter to
be incorporated shall have the privilege of con-
necting a lateral road with the main railroad or
railroads hereby authorised, 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, merchandise
and other property, and not exceeding two cents
per mile for every passenger transported thereon,
and that the said company be and they are hereby
required to transport on the said railroad or rail-
roads all coal or other property of every descrip-
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