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LAWS OP MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 232.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact section seven, of the

act of eight hundred and seventy, chapter eighty,

entitled an act to amend the act of eighteen hun-

dred and fifty-three, chapter one hundred and

ninety-four, entitled an act to incorporate the

Baltimore and Potomac Rail Road Company, and

to repeal the second section of the act of eighteen

hundred and sixty, chapter seventy-one, and to

extend the time for the completion of the Balti-

more and Potomac Rail Road.

Amended and

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

re- enacted

Maryland, That section seven, of the act of eighteen

hundred and seventy, chapter eighty, entitled an act

to amend the act of eighteen hundred and fifty-three,

chapter one hundred and ninety-four, entitled an act

to incorporate the Baltimore and Potomac Rail Road

Company, and to repeal the second section of the act

of eighteen hundred and sixty, chapter seventy-one,

and to extend the time for the completion of the

Baltimore and Potomac Rail Road, be and the same

is hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as .

follows :

SEC. 7. Be it enacted, That so much of the fifteenth

section of the said act, passed at January session,

eighteen hundred and fifty-three, chanter one hun-

dred and ninety-four, entitled an act to incorporate

the Baltimore and Potomac Rail Road Company, as

Charge for toll

provides that the said company shall have power to

charge for tolls upon the transportation of persons,

goods, produce, merchandise or property of any
description transported by them on said railroad or

railroads, any sum not exceeding eight cents per ton

for both tolls and transportation for every mile the

same may be transported; and for passengers, not

Passenger fare.

exceeding four cents per mile for each passenger,

shall not apply to the transportation of persons,

goods, produce, merchandise or property of any de-

scription transported on said railroads between the
points on the line of the Northern Central Railway,

as newly located, where the said Baltimore and Po-