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Part III.
Working Agreements.
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Agreements between companies shall not alter tolls, &c.
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22. Where two or more companies are authorized by a special Act hereafter passed and incorporating this part of this Act to agree among themselves with respect to all or any of the following purposes; namely,—
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The maintenance and management of the railways of the companies respectively, or any one or more of them, or any part thereof respectively, and of the works connected therewith respectively, or any of them ;
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The use and working of the railways or railway, or of any part thereof, and the conveyance of traffic thereon ;
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The fixing, collecting, and apportionment of the tolls, rates, charges, receipts, and revenues levied, taken, or arising in respect of traffic ;
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then and in every such case the authority so to agree, or the agreement when entered into, shall not in any manner affect any of the tolls, rates, or charges which the companies parties thereto are from time to time respectively authorized to demand and receive from any person or from any other company; but all such persons and companies shall, notwithstanding the agreement, be entitled to the use and benefit of the railways of the several companies, parties to the agreement, on the same terms and conditions, and on payment of the same tolls, rates, and charges, as they would be if such authority had not been given or the agreement had not been entered into.
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