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said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company , on such terms as shall beapproved of by the competent officer or authority; and in all suchinstances, to receive the compensation so agreed for, according to theterms of each contract.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said railroad company maycharge and receive, for taking up and setting down any passenger ortraveller within the district, conveyed a shorter distance than four miles,a sum not exceeding twelve and a half cents.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That unless the said company shallcommence the said lateral railroad within one year, and complete thesame with, at least, one set of tracks, within four years from the passageof this act, then this act, and all the rights and privileges thereby granted,shall cease and determine.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained shallbe so construed as to prevent the Congress of the United States fromgranting the same or similar privileges to those hereby granted to anyother company or companies, incorporated or to be incorporated by thestate of Maryland or Virginia, or by Congress , or from authorizing, byany future law, such additional railroads or roads, in connection with saidroad, so as to extend the same road, or to construct others connectedtherewith, to such parts of the district as from time to time may berequired by the convenience of those parts of the district into which thesaid company are now restrained from carrying said road, or from enact-ing such rules and regulations, prescribing the speed of cars or carriagespassing over said road, and other matters relating thereto, necessary forthe security of the persons and property of the inhabitants of the district, insuch manner as to the present or any future Congress shall seem expe-dient: And provided, nevertheless, That nothing herein contained shallbe construed to give any rights or privileges to the said company, beyondthe limits of the District of Columbia .
Sec. 7. A nd be it further enacted, That if the state of Maryland shalldetermine to construct a railway between the city of Baltimore and theDistrict of Columbia , or shall incorporate a company for the same pur-pose,-then similar rights, privileges, immunities, and powers, conferredby this act on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad , be, and the same arehereby, conferred on the state of Maryland , or any company which maybe incorporated by it for the same purpose, within one year after thepassage of this act.
Approved, March 2, 1831.
Chap. LXXXVI. — An Act to ascertain and mark the line between the state of Ala-bama and the territory of Florida, and the northern boundary of the state of Illi-nois , and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the UnitedStates be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be run and markedthe boundary line between the state of Alabama and the territory ofFlorida, by the surveyors general of Alabama and Florida , on the thirty-first degree of north latitude ; and it shall be the duty of the surveyorgeneral of Florida to connect the public surveys on both sides with theline so run and marked.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That patents shall be issued forsuch tracts of land as were sold and paid for at the land office at Talla-hassee, in the territory of Florida , as are found to be situate within thelimits of the district of lands subject to sale at Sparta, in Alabama ,agreeably to the terms of the act organizing that district; and the said
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