Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-06-04

10 amend the Charter of the HCumberland and
Pennsylvania Railroad Company" passed at
the January Session, eighteen hundred and
forty-nine, chapter four hundred and sixty
nine.
SECTION. l. Be 1t enactedby tke General ASSEM-
bty Of maryland, That so much and such parts
OF the sixteenth section of the Act of eighteen
hundred and forty-nine, chapter four hundred
and sixty mine, entitled GAN Act to Incorpo-
rate the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company" as authorized said company
| to charge three cents per ton per mile toll and
three cents per mile freight, for the transporta-
ton OF COAL be and the same is hereby repeal
ed. And the said company are hereby author
lied to charge for the transportation of coal
from west to east the same rates of toll and
freight per ton per- mile as the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad are authorized to charge for the
transportation of coal in like directions, provi-
ded that said charges are uniform and equal to
all persons and companies transporting coal
over said railroad over the same portion there
of, and over a like distance along said railroad
and provided that reduction, advance or
drawback shall be made by said Cumberland
and Pennsylvania Railroad Company partially
in favor of or against any person or company
whatsoever transporting coal over said rail-
road and provided, that if said Cumberland
and Pennsylvania Railroad Company shall at
any time transport coal over its railroad under
any special contract, covenant or agreement at
less rates of toll and freight either, than the
rates of toll and freight which it is hereby au-
| thorized to charge, the said Cumberland and
Pennsylvania Railroad Company shall not
charge any other person or company any high
er rates of toll and freight either per ton or
mile, than it charges under such special con-
tract, covenant or agreement, any thing in the
| Act of eighteen hundred and forty-nine chap
| ter four hundred and sixty-nine, or the several
supplements thereto to the contrary notwith-
standing.
| Sec. 2 And be 1t enacted, That the said
Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany shall, and they are hereby required to
| furnish cars, vehicles and transportation, to
each and every incorporated company, indivi7
dual or association, being the owner or lessee
| of any coal mine on or near the railroad, or the
branches thereof, owned and worked by the
said Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, and connected Herewith by tracts or
plans equal to, suitable for, and sufficient in
capacity to transport over said railroad and
branches thereof, from such mine or mines to
the city of Cumberland, all the Goals mined
| from such mine or mines by any owner or les
see thereof, engaged in working the same; and
| in default or failure ON the part of the said
Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pahy, to furnish such cars, vehicles and trans
portation to the owner or lessee Of any mine as
aforesaid, sufficient for the transportation of all
the coal mined by said owner or lessee as afore-
said then, upon such neglect or failure, the
said Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad
Company shall, on demand OF any such owner
or lessee, forthwith apportion and distribute its
coal cars, vehicles and transportation, equally
and pro rata, among each and every incorpo-
rated company, individual or association, be-
ing the owner or lessee of any coal mine OF
mines, then engaged in working the same con-
nected with said railroad or Of the branches
thereof by tracts, switches or planes.
! Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from and after its passage.
! Approued February 6, 1868.
THOMAS SWAMI,
Governor.