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232 F. But any person, firm or corporation may contract in
writing or partly in print and partly in writing, and not other-
wise, with any individual, company or corporation, now or
hereafter owning, controlling, managing or operating any tele-
phone line or lines within the limits of this State, for such
special form, description and amount of telephone equipment
and service, expressed in such contract, as such person, firm or
corporation may need, at such rates, and upon such terms and
conditions as may be agreed upon between the parties to such
contract, and be expressed therein, but shall not otherwise be
entitled thereto, and every form of such special contract, made
for any year, shall constitute and be a form of contract for
like special telephone equipment and service, into which every
other person, firm or corporation in like situation with the
person, firm or corporation so contracting and desiring a like
special form, description and amount of telephone equipment
and service, shall have a right to enter, in such year, with the
party so contracting for such telephone equipment and service ;
the special contract mentioned in this section shall be entered
into before such equipment and service are supplied; pro-
vided, however, that nothing in this section shall be so con-
strued as to impair the obligation of the individual, company
or corporation owning, controlling, managing or operating a
telephone line or telephone lines, within the limits of this State,
to furnish, in accordance with the requirements of sections
232 A, 232 B, 232 C, 232 D and 232 E, of the Code of Public
General Laws, article twenty-three, title "Corporations," sub-
title "Telegraph Companies," as enacted by the Act of
Assembly of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, chapter three
hundred and eighty seven, and at the rates of charge mentioned
in said sections 232 A and 232 B, telephone equipment and
service of the kind and description which is now furnished by
the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Balti-
more city, at the rate of charge mentioned in said sections
232 A and 232 B; and the said company, as a condition prece-
dent to the exercise of any of the powers conferred by this act,
shall forthwith file in the office of the clerk of the Court of
Appeals of Maryland, to be by said clerk annexed to the
original of this act tiled in his office, a full and adequate
description in detail, and certified by the Governor of this
State to be a full and adequate description of the equipment
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