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posed benefits which the parties may derive from
the construction of any rail road or rail roads,
and the said company shall give notice to all per-
sons whose interest are to be affected by the con-
demnation of any land, in writing, or by adver-
tisement 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 inquisition to writ-
ing, 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 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 condemned and the quantity 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 rep-
resentatives, and not before, shall entitle the said
company to the estate, use and interest thus valu-
ed as freely 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
thereafter be recovered from said company with-
out cost, by the said owner or owners, his, her or
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their legal representatives; Provided, that any
company now or hereafter to be incorporated, shall
have the privilege of connecting a lateral rail road
with the main rail road or rail roads hereby au-
thorised 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, mer-
chandise 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 road
or roads, all coal or other property of every de-
scription which may be brought to the established
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